Hi.

I am using the videolan-client on Fedora Core 4 x86-64, and saw this message using dmesg. I guessed there was trouble vlc's output in the terminal. Is this just a harmless application error, or is something else wrong?

Thanks!

(Output of dmesg follows)

vlc[6894]: segfault at 00002aaaaaab4000 rip 00000000005d64d4 rsp 0000000046408fa8 error 6 Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffff3680330e26 RIP: [<ffffff3680330e26>] PGD 0 Oops: 0010 [1] CPU 0 Modules linked in: ipv6 sunrpc pcmcia yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core vfat fat dm_mod video button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd shpchp i2c_viapro i2c_core snd_via82xx gameport snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore 8139too via_rhine mii ext3 jbd sata_via libata sd_mod scsi_mod Pid: 6918, comm: vlc Not tainted 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffff3680330e26>] [<ffffff3680330e26>] RSP: 0018:ffff810003a79ef8 EFLAGS: 00010296 RAX: 0000000000000080 RBX: 000000640040d970 RCX: ffff810014e1b5c0 RDX: ffff81002c8ac140 RSI: ffff81002c8ac140 RDI: ffffffff8049aa40 RBP: 0000003000000000 R08: ffff810003a78000 R09: 0000000000000003 R10: 0000000000001612 R11: ffff810014e1b5c0 R12: 000000620000000e R13: 000000388e60d060 R14: 0000003700000000 R15: 0000003100a00000 FS: 0000000043204960(0063) GS:ffffffff804f7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffffff3680330e26 CR3: 0000000025cf1000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process vlc (pid: 6918, threadinfo ffff810003a78000, task ffff81002c8ac140) Stack: 0000000000000000 0000000000200200 000000010040d970 000000004b87ad6e ffffffff8013a59e ffff81002c8ac140 ffffffff804bebe0 ffffffff80110d93 00000000432049f0 0000000000000000 Call Trace:<ffffffff8013a59e>{process_timeout+0} <ffffffff80110d93>{syscall_trace_enter+217} <ffffffff8013af70>{sys_nanosleep+179} <ffffffff8010e850>{tracesys+209}

Code: Bad RIP value. RIP [<ffffff3680330e26>] RSP <ffff810003a79ef8> CR2: ffffff3680330e26 <0>Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'kswapd0', page ffff810001179078) flags:0x4000000000000008 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:-255 count:0 (Not tainted) Backtrace:

Call Trace:<ffffffff80159e69>{bad_page+135} <ffffffff8015a29a>{free_hot_cold_page+126} <ffffffff8015a366>{__pagevec_free+41} <ffffffff8015ef51>{__pagevec_release_nonlru+145} <ffffffff80156252>{__remove_from_page_cache+28} <ffffffff80160deb>{shrink_zone+3277} <ffffffff801a3b20>{mb_cache_shrink_fn+123} <ffffffff8033175b>{_spin_lock_irqsave+9} <ffffffff8016122a>{balance_pgdat+571} <ffffffff801614ad>{kswapd+269} <ffffffff801462d0>{autoremove_wake_function+0} <ffffffff803317b8>{_spin_unlock_irq+9} <ffffffff8012e6bb>{schedule_tail+66} <ffffffff8010f20e>{child_rip+8} <ffffffff801613a0>{kswapd+0} <ffffffff8010f206>{child_rip+0}

Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed

-- Sandesh Singh