Kernel panic?

[Kiril Mitev]

Kernel panic screen out of DFly on VMware:
I'm afraid I am not much of a kernel hacker/debugger, but
if there are any Kernel Debugging for Dummies suggestions
you might have, please let me know.

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(preceeding console log)
(out-of-the-box sendmail config broken?)

lots of:
. .. sm-mta[3080]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon Daemon0:
cannot bind: Address already in use
. .. sm-mta[3080]: daemon Daemon0: problem creating SMTP socket

later, lots of:
. .. sm-mta[5569]: k2S2...56: SYSERR(root): hash map "Alias0": missing mal
file /etc/mail/aliases.db: No such file or directory

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(kernel panic)

acd0: unknown CMD (0x12) command timeout - resetting
ata1: WARNING: atapi resetting donecount 255 for retry
ata1: resetting devices .. done

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address   = 0x38352d5a
fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc0297324
stack pointer           = 0x10:0xcc50c9cc
frame pointer           = 0x10:0xcc50c9cc
code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
                        = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process         = 604 (cron)
current thread          = pri 6

kernel: type 12 trap, code=0
Stopped at      dev2udev+0x10:  movl   0x4(%edx),%eax