This's a known problem with 2.3.22.
Applying things @
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.3/2.3.22/
will solve your problem.
Remi Turk [remi@a2zis.com] wrote:
> Hi folks,
> while playing with 2.3.22 my system crashed.
> it doesn't boot normally, (silent hardlock, no oops etc)
> so I booted with init=/bin/sh
> it works, but:
> When I mounted /proc, started en terminated top it crashed
> with a "Unable to handle kernel paging request at bfff3ebd"
> with EIP bfffff24 and "Aiee, killing interrupt handler.
> Sadly I wasn't able to write it down. After some testing
> I couldn't reproduce it anymore, but I got another problem.
> After doing the following, I got an oops and a hardlock (SysRQ didn't
> work anymore):
> (boot with init=/bin/sh)
> $ mount /proc
> $ ps
> $ ps
> $ ps
> $ some_command (I tried `ls', `ps', `cat' and `file')
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