[Discuss] kernel panic

[Peter Scott]

A new box I am trying to bring up repeatedly kernel panics at random 
unattended moments.

I've rebuilt it on Fedora Core 10 once and twice on FC 9 with the same 
result.  At some point when I am not looking, it vomits a traceback ending with

	EIP udp_pkt_to_tuple nf_conntrack
	kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

The only correlation I have noticed so far is that this seems only to 
occur when I have unplugged the monitor.  I suspect this is a bogus 
observation and have left the monitor plugged in this time.

The error seems related to networking.  Google has suggested only a 
vague suggestion that I try acpi=off in the boot line.  Unfortunately, 
this has the effect of disabling networking, since it (for some reason) 
causes it to disable IRQ 16, which is the interrupt for eth0.  (That 
fact took quite some debugging to acquire, considering that the NIC 
light still blinked on pinging out.)

Google has forsaken me on solving this problem so I turn to you...
-- 
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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