[conspire] Kernel failure

[Paul Zander]

Computer running Debian.  Installed in September.

On several occasions a pop-up window says I had a kernel failure and asks if I want to share the details with the Debian developers.  When the most recent one occurred, the only application running was Open Office.

1) Should I be concerned?
2) Is it advisable or not to share it with the developers?


Here is a copy of the "details"

Kernel failure message 1:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffff3
IP: [<c10ecadf>] m_stop+0xe/0x3f
*pdpt = 0000000001443001 *pde = 0000000000013067 *pte = 0000000000000000 
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent
Modules linked in: ppdev lp sco bridge stp bnep powernow_k8 rfcomm cpufreq_stats l2cap cpufreq_powersave bluetooth cpufreq_userspace rfkill cpufreq_conservative binfmt_misc usbhid hid ext3 jbd fuse loop firewire_sbp2 snd_hda_codec_nvhdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek nouveau ttm drm_kms_helper snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec drm i2c_algo_bit parport_pc snd_hwdep parport shpchp snd_pcm snd_seq snd_timer pci_hotplug snd_seq_device i2c_nforce2 k10temp i2c_core evdev video asus_atk0110 pcspkr processor button output snd wmi soundcore snd_page_alloc ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 sg sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif ata_generic usb_storage ohci_hcd firewire_ohci pata_amd firewire_core floppy ahci forcedeth libata crc_itu_t scsi_mod ehci_hcd usbcore nls_base thermal thermal_sys [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]

Pid: 2723, comm: popularity-cont Not tainted (2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1) System Product Name
EIP: 0060:[<c10ecadf>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0
EIP is at m_stop+0xe/0x3f
EAX: ea52ff60 EBX: ea4ebf64 ECX: c1292404 EDX: fffffff3
ESI: f6946bc0 EDI: fffffff3 EBP: fffffff3 ESP: ea4ebf3c
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Process popularity-cont (pid: 2723, ti=ea4ea000 task=f6565940 task.ti=ea4ea000)
Stack:
 ea4ebf64 ea52ff60 c10ce917 00001000 09e19dc0 f697fc80 ea52ff88 00000000
<0> c10bdd9f c110a350 00000000 00000000 00001000 f697fc80 c10ce6ce 09e19dc0
<0> c10bb596 ea4ebf9c f697fc80 fffffff7 00001000 ea4ea000 c10bb686 ea4ebf9c
Call Trace:
 [<c10ce917>] ? seq_read+0x249/0x360
 [<c10bdd9f>] ? sys_fstat64+0x1e/0x23
 [<c110a350>] ? security_file_permission+0xc/0xd
 [<c10ce6ce>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x360
 [<c10bb596>] ? vfs_read+0x7b/0xd3
 [<c10bb686>] ? sys_read+0x3c/0x63
 [<c100821c>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: f0 ff 08 0f 94 c2 84 d2 74 09 8b 44 24 08 e8 ca 97 f4 ff 83 c4 38 89 f8 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 56 85 d2 53 8b 70 40 74 16 3b 56 08 74 11 <8b> 1a 8d 43 34 e8 01 0c f6 ff 89 d8 e8 bb 7e f4 ff 8b 4e 04 85 
EIP: [<c10ecadf>] m_stop+0xe/0x3f SS:ESP 0068:ea4ebf3c
CR2: 00000000fffffff3
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