Hello,
Maybe this is a "boker-tov-eliyahu" thing, but still. I've installed Fedora 12, just to find out that it warns me about kernel oopses. In my remote memories, I recall that a kernel oops usually meant that my hardware was cooking (in those days when Linux was rock solid and hardware wasn't) and the computer froze completely. Now I get an oops warning every now and then, but nothing really happens. And I wonder what is going on? Has the dreaded oops become something one can live with? And then there's this site which collects oops reports (http://www.kerneloops.org/) which, judging by its sluggish response, is a pretty busy project. Oopses keep flooding in. So, should I just take it cool and wait for a new kernel with this fixed, ignoring these messages? Just for the heck of it, the relevant part from /var/log/messages follows. I am running on a new Gigabyte motherboard. I don't expect anyone to dissect this. I mean, a report has been submitted. Eli ----- log follows, for the fun ----- Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c:390 hpet_next_event+0x5c/0x81() (Not tainted) Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: Hardware name: P55-UD3R Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: Modules linked in: Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 #1 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: Call Trace: Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff81051694>] warn_slowpath_common+0x84/0x9c Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff810516c0>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x16 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff8102d040>] hpet_next_event+0x5c/0x81 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff8102d08b>] hpet_legacy_next_event+0x10/0x12 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff81071953>] clockevents_program_event+0x7a/0x83 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff81072a9d>] tick_dev_program_event+0x3c/0xaa Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff8107249d>] tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0xa4/0x100 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff81071dc7>] tick_notify+0x222/0x379 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff8141d02b>] notifier_call_chain+0x32/0x5e Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff8106b70c>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x16 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff810717a0>] clockevents_notify+0x39/0x76 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff812671b1>] lapic_timer_state_broadcast+0x46/0x48 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff8126772e>] acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x18a/0x2b5 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff813538a3>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x8d/0xc2 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff81010c60>] cpu_idle+0xa6/0xe9 Jan 15 14:45:17 test kernel: [<ffffffff814145be>] start_secondary+0x1f3/0x234 -- Web: http://www.billauer.co.il _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux