You are correct... I also see the "Badness at kernel/softirq.c:138" message. Another thing... On occasion the system, Powermac with dual G4 processors, fails to boot because of a "spinlock" problem on CPU0. Hmmm... I wonder if these two events are related. -Joseph ========================================================================= On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 04:01 +0000, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Joseph Sacco <jsacco <at> gnome.org> writes: > > > > > I started seeing these messages > > > > Message from syslogd <at> at Mon Jun 4 04:40:20 2007 ... > > plantain kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ > > > > a while back. Not harmful, but annoying. > > It looks more harmful at closer look, actually. If you inspect your > /var/log/messages you'll see something like: > > ================================= > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: Badness at kernel/softirq.c:138 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: Call Trace: > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BBD0] [C0008AB0] show_stack+0x50/0x184 > (unreliable) > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BBF0] [C012072C] report_bug+0x84/0xc8 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BC00] [C02B1A2C] > __kprobes_text_start+0x154/0x538 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BC50] [C0013280] > ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4c > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: --- Exception: 700 at local_bh_enable+0x28/0x8c > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: LR = cond_resched_softirq+0x58/0x80 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BD10] [24002428] 0x24002428 (unreliable) > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BD20] [C02B0344] > cond_resched_softirq+0x58/0x80 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BD30] [C0231D30] release_sock+0x54/0xac > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BD50] [C0269B20] tcp_sendmsg+0xac0/0xbf8 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BDB0] [C028666C] inet_sendmsg+0x60/0x74 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BDD0] [C022ED68] sock_aio_write+0x114/0x130 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BE30] [C008FF38] do_sync_write+0xb8/0x10c > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BEF0] [C0090B10] vfs_write+0x104/0x1c8 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BF10] [C00911AC] sys_write+0x4c/0x8c > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BF40] [C0012C24] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: --- Exception: c01 at 0x1fabb098 > Jun 5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: LR = 0x2002b430 > Jun 5 07:50:13 Sulaco gconfd (petro-1954): GConf server is not in use, shutting > down. > Jun 5 07:50:13 Sulaco gconfd (petro-1954): Exiting > > ================================= > > I also encountered this nasty behavior. > -- joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net -- jsacco [at] gnome [dot] org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
