It looks like my box is suffering from the same bug, although in Ubuntu 8.04.1 (2.6.24-19). My system also freezes at random apparently, most of the time leaving no messages in the logs whatsoever. However, I found a same 'Eeek' message in the logs very recently: Aug 12 11:32:30 quadpc kernel: [101268.516775] Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1) Please see below for some additional information (and messages attached). uname -a: Linux quadpc 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Sysinfo output: System information report, generated by Sysinfo: 13/08/2008 10:14:25 PM http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo SYSTEM INFORMATION Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) release. GNOME: 2.22.3 (Ubuntu 2008-07-09) Kernel version: 2.6.24-19-generic (#1 SMP Fri Jul 11 23:41:49 UTC 2008) GCC: 4.2.3 (i486-linux-gnu) Xorg: unknown (13 June 2008 01:08:21AM) (13 June 2008 01:08:21AM) Hostname: quadpc Uptime: 0 days 2 h 9 min CPU INFORMATION GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Number of CPUs: 4 CPU clock currently at 1596.000 MHz with 4096 KB cache Numbering: family(6) model(15) stepping(11) Bogomips: 4814.38 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm MEMORY INFORMATION Total memory: 2026 MB Total swap: 4769 MB STORAGE INFORMATION SCSI device - scsi0 Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD3200AAKS-0 SCSI device - scsi7 Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: DVD-RAM GSA-H55L SCSI device - scsi7 Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG SP1203N SCSI device - scsi4 Vendor: ST350063 Model: 0A HARDWARE INFORMATION MOTHERBOARD Host bridge Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 8276 PCI bridge(s) Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) USB controller(s) Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) GRAPHIC CARD SOUND CARD Multimedia controller Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 829f NETWORK NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION Model name: GeForce 8600 GTS Card Type: PCI-E Video RAM: unknown GPU Frequency: unknown Driver version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 169.12 Thu Feb 14 17:53:07 PST 2008