shutdown does not work under suse 9.1



hello NG,
i have a problem with a suse 9.1 system.
from time to time, i'm not able to shutdown it properly.
Yesterday, i did a "shutdown -h now". As far as i remember, the console
output was "switching to runlevel 0" and "sending all processes the
TERM signal". The "sending all processes the KILL signal" did not come
(as far as i remember).
Here is an excerpt from my syslog (hopefilly not too long):
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Sep 4 17:52:25 pc51332 init: Switching to runlevel: 0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address fa0129a0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: printing eip:
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: c028d0e5
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: *pde = 32833067
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1]
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: SMP
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: CPU: 0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: EIP: 0060:[jpeg_decode+3301/4240]
Not tainted
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c028d0e5>] Not
tainted
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.4-52-smp)
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: EIP is at jpeg_decode+0xce5/0x1090
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: eax: 0000320c ebx: 0000003c ecx:
00003200 edx: 00000065
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: esi: f9b6f000 edi: 00000000 ebp:
fa0129a0 esp: cdf97dec
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: Process events/0 (pid: 6,
threadinfo=cdf96000 task=cdffb280)
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: Stack: 00000400 0000001c 20000001
00000000 cdf97e38 db974f00 00000000 c03d4800
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: 00000000 00000022 fffffffe
ffffffef f9b6fa40 f9b6f640 fa0133a0 00000004
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: 00000002 00000a00 c0384500
00000246 00000010 00000010 00000046 00000010
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: Call Trace:
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [splash_prepare+304/912]
splash_prepare+0x130/0x390
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c028af40>]
splash_prepare+0x130/0x390
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [fbcon_switch+41/496]
fbcon_switch+0x29/0x1f0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c0287989>] fbcon_switch+0x29/0x1f0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [redraw_screen+212/528]
redraw_screen+0xd4/0x210
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c023a514>] redraw_screen+0xd4/0x210
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [complete_change_console+43/208]
complete_change_console+0x2b/0xd0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c02322db>]
complete_change_console+0x2b/0xd0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [console_callback+197/224]
console_callback+0xc5/0xe0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c023a945>]
console_callback+0xc5/0xe0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [worker_thread+391/528]
worker_thread+0x187/0x210
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c0135c27>] worker_thread+0x187/0x210
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [console_callback+0/224]
console_callback+0x0/0xe0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c023a880>] console_callback+0x0/0xe0
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [default_wake_function+0/16]
default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c01209d0>]
default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [default_wake_function+0/16]
default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c01209d0>]
default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [worker_thread+0/528]
worker_thread+0x0/0x210
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c0135aa0>] worker_thread+0x0/0x210
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [kthread+212/280] kthread+0xd4/0x118
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c0139454>] kthread+0xd4/0x118
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [kthread+0/280] kthread+0x0/0x118
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c0139380>] kthread+0x0/0x118
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [kernel_thread_helper+5/16]
kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: [<c0107005>]
kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel:
Sep 4 17:52:26 pc51332 kernel: Code: 88 44 bd 00 89 c3 89 fa c1 fb 08
85 ff 88 5c bd 01 0f 88 e2
Sep 4 17:59:00 pc51332 /USR/SBIN/CRON[15908]: (root) CMD ( rm -f
/var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
Sep 4 18:05:46 pc51332 su: (to postgres) root on /dev/pts/51
Sep 4 18:05:46 pc51332 su: pam_unix2: session started for user
postgres, service su
Sep 4 18:05:50 pc51332 su: pam_unix2: session finished for user
postgres, service su
Sep 4 18:09:36 pc51332 su: (to root) root on none
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The kernel reacted with an "Oops". Never saw this before. Is this
severe ?
You see that the machine still worked on, i had to use the power
switch.
What i found out already:
The kernel says Oops, if it finds something it does not understand
really. He prints several registers from the cpu, the process which is
causing the problem and the actual system calls to the syslog. So, in
my case, events/0 is causing the trouble.
Events is a kernel thread, which can't be killed, even with -9.
Events, like any other kernel thread, has to finish himself.
But it does not. Anybody knows why ?
I think i still have the kernel from the installation.
Do you think i need a kernel patch ?
Any other idea ?
Thank you for any tip.
Bernd.
btw: i tested ram and harddisk, everyting o.k.

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