The system: Linux cmccabe-fc2 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Fedora Core 2 Test 3 The Samba: RPM samba-3.0.3-5 Mount a share, cd to the mountpoint, do an 'ls'. Terminal locks up, samba is complete hosed, can't 'kill -9'. Won't umount during shutdown either. Output from dmesg below: ================================================================================ smb_lookup: find //.Trash-cmccabe failed, error=-5 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: 00000000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00210246 (2.6.5-1.358) EIP is at 0x0 eax: 056a7a80 ebx: 11757b90 ecx: 0214edcd edx: 10d48fa0 esi: 1cd0c024 edi: 0335a180 ebp: 056a7a80 esp: 10d48f14 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process nautilus (pid: 3929, threadinfo=10d48000 task=12079230) Stack: 24e38976 10d48f38 00000000 1cd0c000 11575754 1ce90e18 1bbee680 0214edcd 10d48fa0 00000000 005ad4b3 056a7a80 00000000 00000000 1cd0c000 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000004 00200246 24e40020 1ce90e80 056a7a80 Call Trace: [<24e38976>] smb_readdir+0x346/0x3f1 [smbfs] [<0214edcd>] filldir64+0x0/0x12e [<0214eaba>] vfs_readdir+0x7a/0x9b [<0214edcd>] filldir64+0x0/0x12e [<0214ef60>] sys_getdents64+0x65/0xaa [<0214e26c>] generic_file_fcntl+0xd7/0x140 Code: Bad EIP value.
Upgraded to 3.0.4. Problem seems to be gone.
Reporter says fixed.
sorry for the same, cleaning up the database to prevent unecessary reopens of bugs.
database cleanup