On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:05 +0000, Josh Hunholz wrote: > Hi. We are trying to set up a server (new for us, but used hardware) > with Fedora Core 3, but when we reboot, we keep getting this error: > > newmachine kernel: Badness in interruptible_sleep_on_timeout at > kernel/sched.c:3005 > Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<02302989>] > interruptible_sleep_on_timeout+0x5d/0x23a > Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<0211b919>] > default_wake_function+0x0/0xc > Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<02302db4>] __cond_resched+0x14/0x3b > Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<022ac51a>] netdev_run_todo+0x29/0x2bf > Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<1283ee3d>] > rtl8139_thread+0x38/0x13f [8139too] > Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<1283ee05>] rtl8139_thread+0x0/0x13f > [8139too] > Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<021041d9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb > > My first thought was to try to recompile the kernel, but it isn't > letting us do that either. Can anyone help me with this error? Or > explain what type of error it could be? Thanks! > > Josh Hunholz > I had this. It's a network card module problem. It didn't seem to affect the day-to-day running of the system though. So I didn't tinker with it at all. As it happens a friend had a spare NIC and I swapped the 8139 one. Guess that doesn't help much. Maybe you're having a different problem that is unrelated to this error, that I found to be harmless. -- Jon Telfer <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
