| From: Jeffrey Ross <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> | Well looks like my lock-up problem is caused by the same bug, I got a copy | of the output on a serial console I'm glad to hear that you got a serial console working. I sure with I had a serial port. | BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:138/local_bh_enable() (Tainted: G M ) This is not a panic report. Execution continues after a BUG. So this is probably not the cause of your lockups. Actually, it might be part of the same problem, but this message does not itself signify a lockup. | Question, why is my kernel "Tainted" I have not installed anything that | wasn't either on the distro DVD or in the fedora repo. Interesting question. I googled and found this document: https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/250/3582750_f.SAL_Public.html It seems that the taint is M: a machine check interrupt happened. I don't really know how serious that is. I'd expect something that was a machine check to get logged. Do you see anything looking back in /var/log/messages?
