kernel 2.6 with debian/sarge on Poweredge 1750

[Jean-Marc Hoeltzli]

Hi,

I've installed two poweredge 1750 with the debian Sarge netinst. 
Everithing went ok  until i upgraded the kernel to
kernel-image-2.6.3-1-686-smp. (the latest 2.6 in the testing debain branch)
whith this kernel the machine crashes sotimes whith such messages:
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at 
virtual address 010000a4
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  printing eip:
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: c01e5bed
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: *pde = 00000000
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: CPU:    2
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: EIP:    0060:[init_dev+29/1392]    Tainted: P
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: EIP is at init_dev+0x1d/0x570
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: eax: 6d710000   ebx: f7814840   ecx: 
c02ff81c   edx: 00000000
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: esi: 01000000   edi: f7814840   ebp: 
6d710000   esp: de4d3e98
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: Process bash (pid: 2767, 
threadinfo=de4d2000 task=e6070080)
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: Stack: 6d710000 f763d8e0 f16ff005 00000003 
f16ff005 de4d3f70 00000000 00000000
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:        f7625f00 c03331e0 c017bbb1 f7625f00 
c0135f25 00000005 f88eb084 00000005
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:        f7814840 01000000 f7814840 00500000 
c01e6aa8 01000000 6d710000 de4d3f00
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: Call Trace:
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [dput+49/624] dput+0x31/0x270
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [in_group_p+37/48] in_group_p+0x25/0x30
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [__crc_tcp_close+561374/712409] 
ext3_permission+0xb4/0x1c0 [ext3]
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [tty_open+152/944] tty_open+0x98/0x3b0
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [chrdev_open+293/656] chrdev_open+0x125/0x290
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [get_empty_filp+104/224] 
get_empty_filp+0x68/0xe0
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [dentry_open+352/560] dentry_open+0x160/0x230
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [filp_open+104/112] filp_open+0x68/0x70
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [sys_open+91/144] sys_open+0x5b/0x90
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:  [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel:
Apr 22 10:20:42 ikki kernel: Code: 8b 86 a4 00 00 00 8b 1c a8 85 db 74 
66 8b 83 a0 00 00 00 a9

as those servers are now 500 km away from my office, remotely upgrading 
the kernel is somewhat risky. So I  would like to know wich 2.6 kernel I 
shoud use safely on these computer.
Any experience report would help me.

Thanks in advance

Jean-Marc Hoeltzli
Coelis