[ILUG] Bad EIP value

[Brendan Halpin]

Back to my machine after a welcome break, to find that several
commands (df and ls -l in particular, though not plain ls) provoke
a segmentation fault and the following error: 

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 <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 08e8c358
 printing eip:
08e8c358
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
parport_pc lp parport capi capifs kernelcapi capiutil ipx ipt_REJECT iptable_filter ip_tables pcmcia_core loop lvm-mod md 8139too mii crc32 msdos i830 agpgart autofs4 af_packet efs hfs minix nls_iso8859-1 ntfs xfs reiserfs i810_audio ac97_codec soundcore e1000 i810_rng serial keybdev hid mousedev input usb-uhci usbcore apm rtc ext3 jbd  
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<08e8c358>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00210293
eax: 00000109   ebx: e6b0c000   ecx: bfffd9b0   edx: 00000018
esi: 00000016   edi: ffffffff   ebp: bfffd998   esp: e6b0dfc0
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process ls (pid: 26480, stackpage=e6b0d000)
Stack: c0108a57 00000000 bfffd9b0 40029214 00000016 ffffffff bfffd998 00000109 
       c010002b 0000002b 00000109 40026e66 00000023 00200246 bfffd97c 0000002b 
Call Trace: [<c0108a57>] 
Code:  Bad EIP value.
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The machine has been running all the time, apparently without
problems (apart from /home filling up). Most recent hardware change
(insertion of extra NIC) precedes the problem by about 6 weeks. 

Googling suggests hardware problems, but I don't know how to
proceed to debug this. Pointers welcome.

Brendan
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