On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On 03/13/2014 10:23 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > >> I got this error report today: > >> > >> A kernel problem occurred, but your kernel has been tainted (flags:GW). > >> Kernel maintainers are unable to diagnose tainted reports. > >> > >> not sure where to look in /var/log, nothing in messages. > >> > >> what does it mean? > > what's the value in your /proc/sys/kernel/tainted file? > > > > rday > > > cat tainted > 512 that bitmask corresponds to a kernel warning having occurred. i would just grep thusly: $ dmesg | grep -i taint which might identify the module that tainted the kernel when it was loaded. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org