[PLUG] kernel OOPS -- debugging suggestions?

[Rogan Creswick]

When I got home and woke up my laptop (a Thinkpad T42p running Debian
unstable,  2.6.26-1-686 smp kernel, but uniproc machine) I found the
stuff below spammed to all my open terminals (gnome-terminals, running
under Enlightenment DR17).  I've never had any logs show up in a
user-space terminal on this install in the past, and poking around in
the logs, I don't see what differentiated these messages from the rest
of the content in the logs.  These messages are not the most recent
entries in kern.log or syslog, which seem to be the only places the
messages were written, although I didn't do an exhaustive search.

Spammy stuff in question is below the line.

This has me a tad concerned, since I've also noticed a decrease in
general stability of this machine over the last 3-4 months.  (I seem
to reboot ~2+ times per week now, when it used to run for months on
end.)

Does anyone have suggestions? (This machine is probably nearing the
end of it's life -- a sad thing indeed -- but I'd like to prolong
things as much as is reasonable.)

--Rogan

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Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.552766] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.552864] Process hypnowheel (pid: 26448,
ti=de902000 task=c1c0b760 task.ti=de902000)

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.552866] Stack: c1c0b760 c01b924a c0128534
f8e9d650 f8e98944 00000000 00000001 f8f69107

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.552873]        0000006e c5d08040 0000058c
deaa3b78 c03b85e0 f78ca000 f1dd8030 00000000

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.552879]        f8fc6fa0 deba2a80 09edc298
c030646e f8e8e606 f1c5d25c deba2a80 c030646e

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.552885] Call Trace:

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.552893]  [<c01b924a>] security_capable+0x9/0xa

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.552900]  [<c0128534>] __capable+0x8/0x1b

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.552906]  [<f8e9d650>]
firegl_pcs_command+0x0/0x280 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.553013]  [<f8e98944>] firegl_ioctl+0x134/0x270 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.553102]  [<f8e8e606>] ip_firegl_ioctl+0xc/0x10 [fglrx]

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.553169]  [<c017e4cf>] vfs_ioctl+0x47/0x5d

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.553181]  [<c017e72f>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x24a/0x261

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.553193]  [<c017e787>] sys_ioctl+0x41/0x5a

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.553203]  [<c0103853>] sysenter_past_esp+0x78/0xb1

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.553225]  =======================

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.553227] Code: d3 83 e1 1f c1 fb 05 ba 01 00 00
00 d3 e2 23 54 98 34 5b 83 fa 01 19 c0 c3 53 89 d1 89 d3 83 e1 1f c1
fb 05 ba 01 00 00 00 d3 e2 <23> 94 98 f8 01 00 00 5b 83 fa 01 19 c0 c3
57 56 53 8b b0 f8 01

Message from syslogd at escher at Tue Dec  2 00:40:55 2008 ...
escher kernel: [216137.553257] EIP: [<c01cbaf3>] cap_capable+0x12/0x20
SS:ESP 0068:de903f00

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