[OpenAFS] AFS -> kernel problem

[Alexander Bornik]

I am using AFS since version 1.2.6 (1.2.7) now ... normally AFS is 
working quite
fine, but sometimes my log files show the following lines:

Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request 
at virtual address e96f0000
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel:  printing eip:
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: e967af3e
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: *pde = 1cdce067
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: *pte = 00000000
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: Oops: 0000
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: CPU:    0
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: EIP:    0010:[<e967af3e>]    Tainted: PF
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: e97eb608   ecx: 
ffffff4b   edx: e96eff4c
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: esi: 20000009   edi: e96f0000   ebp: 
c915ff4c   esp: c915feb4
Nov 20 16:40:33 thunder kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018

After that some directories in the AFS-tree are mixed up and show 
hundereds of files with weird names like "$"sadf325äasfölkwejrök", while 
other directories are still working fine.
Applications which access files in the mixed up directories crash, but 
thank god, I did not lose any files up to now.

I am using Mandrake Linux 9.0 with the standard kernel shipped with the 
distribution (2.4.19-16mdk). The Problem occurs on both single- and 
dual-processor machines.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Alex