On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:17:14PM +0200, you [Michal Piotrowski] wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/07/07, Ville Herva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[98790.366620] Modules linked in: ub nvidia(P) ppp_deflate zlib_deflate > > "When you are using a binary driver, the kernel is "tainted", which > means that the source of possible problems may be unrelated to the > kernel code (see > https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/250/3582750_f.SAL_Public.html > for more details). You can check whether or not the kernel was tainted > when the problem occurred by looking at the corresponding error > message. If can you see something similar to the following line: > EIP: 0060:[<c046c7c3>] Tainted: P VLI > (the word Tainted is crucial here), the kernel was tainted and most > probably the kernel developers will not be able to help you. In that > case you should try to reproduce the problem without the binary driver > loaded. Moreover, if the problem does not occur without it, you should > send a bug report to the creators of the binary driver and ask them to > ???x it."
Thanks, I do know the kernel was tainted (Nvidia display driver). I didn't explicitly mention that in the report, since the kernel developers see that from the oops message, and because I believe there is a fair change that the hated nvidia module played no role in this case. Of course, there's no way to be sure, as it is closed source. I sent the oops message just in case the usb-storage / usb people can get an idea from the stack trace what might have gone wrong. I believe it was worth it even though nvidia module might in theory make the problem unsolvable. The problem is spurious (not reproducible). I attached and removed the Nokia device quite some times today and yesterday without problems, and this only happened once. As regards to nvidia being able to fix this problem, I sure you understand that will not happen :) Even if it was the nvidia driver mucking arounf the kernel address space, that would have to be very random and this oops message couldn't help them. -- v -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/