Comment 17 for bug 252977

OK, since the early releases of Intrepid I have not had this particular problem. Though there have been a lot of freezeups during boot on this particular machine I have not seen the "Eeek!" message or the freezeups while using the desktop.

But today I upgraded to the following:

Linux blackbox 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

and the error is back! Xubuntu booted fine then, as before with Hardy, suddenly froze while I was using Firefox at the desktop.

See the attached syslog:

Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153965] Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)
Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153981] page pfn = a6ff3
Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153986] page->flags = 80000068
Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153993] page->count = 1
Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153997] page->mapping = f33734e1
Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.154038] vma->vm_ops = 0x0