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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-IE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi Guys, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I have been running Ubuntu Server 11.04 for a couple of weeks with a Samba server and it is running great. The other day a client win7 tried to do a backup to the allocated Samba share and the server kernel-panicked on me. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Since then, every single time win7 clients are trying to do backups on allocated shares through Samba protocol, the server kernel-panicked and I have to reboot it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The only reason I found in the logs for the KP :”</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> kernel panic - not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I immediately tested my ram with memtest-86 and all is ok<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I mounted two external usb drives on the shares and tried to run the backups on the usb drives and the issue is identical. The server KP every single time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I then run HDD test on both external USB drives and internal drive of the server and all is ok. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I have searched google for an answer but to no avail. All the posts referred back to a potential hardware issue on the server. Hardware wise, my server has no issues. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br>Any help is much appreciated on sorting the issue as I have no idea on where to look for a solution. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Kind Regards, <br><br>Zongo</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>