Re: Strange error / warning message shortly after bootup

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On Thu June 7 2007 14:44:49 Eric wrote:
> (Re-posted ... with some new information ... because I previously posted it
> as a "reply" to the wrong thread, sorry...)
>
> Shortly after booting up, I get (on the root console and in dmesg):
>
> BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:138/local_bh_enable() (Tainted: P      )
>    [<c042b0cf>] local_bh_enable+0x45/0x92
>    [<c06002bd>] cond_resched_softirq+0x2c/0x42
>    [<c059adf3>] release_sock+0x4f/0x9d
>    [<c05c670d>] tcp_sendmsg+0x90b/0x9f9
>    [<c0480872>] core_sys_select+0x1ae/0x2f3
>    [<c05dec95>] inet_sendmsg+0x3b/0x45
>    [<c0598731>] sock_aio_write+0xf6/0x102
>    [<c05b44be>] netlink_insert+0x106/0x110
>    [<c04754ee>] do_sync_write+0xc7/0x10a
>    [<c0436e71>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35
>    [<c0475d47>] vfs_write+0xbc/0x154
>    [<c0476342>] sys_write+0x41/0x67
>    [<c0404f70>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>    =======================
>
> Any idea what that's all about?
>
> I get it once and then everything seems fine.
>
> I have found some more information about this in google, and what seems to
> be happening is that local_bh_enable() attempts to do unfriendly things
> with interrupts (not sure exactly what)... I'm wondering if this error
> leaves the system in any kind of an unstable state forevermore...
>
> Platform: Fedora 7 as "guest" OS on VMware 6.00 on Windows XP host, 256 MB
> RAM (1GB RAM on host, 256 MB allocated to guest OS, also tried it with 512
> MB allocated to guest with same result) (this has all been rock solid with
> FC6)

This is a known problem with the release kernel  2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
a fix is in the pipe line check updates. #240982 (see my note: comment 41)

...dex





	
	
		
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