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Jani Uusitalo (uusijani) wrote : Unable to handle kernel paging request with Seven wonders of nature gallery on an Asus M2N68-AM Plus

This is an up-to-date Lucid on an Asus M2N68-AM Plus.

With the stock Firefox (3.6.21), when http://www.new7wonders.com/image-gallery?id=21&post_id=5077 is opened, cpu load increases significantly, mouse pointer movement becomes jerky and finally the system freezes. Sometimes (maybe 1/3 of freezes) the display also goes black. At this point Alt+PrtScr+REISUB works but nothing else. On the M2N68-AM Plus this seems to happen every time, whereas on my other system (an ancient Shuttle, a SS56G I think) it never happens (though the page still does burn cpu quite heavily).

I tried older release kernels down to 2.6.32-27, and the issue remained. I have yet to try newer ones.

I also tried disabling Flash, and the issue remained.

I'm attaching an apport, and a syslog that says the Oops is because "unable to handle kernel paging request". This leads me to suspect this might be the same issue as Bug #834629, but as the circumstances do differ significantly, I decided to report this separately.