a kernel failure message

a kernel failure message

[Nick Levinson]

The following appeared earlier today, after logging into a nonroot account (the only login today) and opening the Firefox 3.0.4 browser; kernel failures were reported on several recent days but I did not report them to you, not knowing the email address at the time (I prefer email over machine-to-machine contact); they did not occur after the clean install of Fedora 10 Linux until recently; and I have not changed the hardware or installed new software in recent days:

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Kernel failure message 1:
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WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:219 dev_watchdog+0xda/0x12d()
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1 (orinoco_cs): transmit timed out
Modules linked in: vfat fat usb_storage fuse ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat sco bridge stp bnep l2cap bluetooth sunrpc ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 dm_multipath uinput orinoco_cs orinoco hermes ppdev dcdbas snd_intel8x0 snd_intel8x0m snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_dummy ac97_bus snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm irda snd_timer crc_ccitt floppy snd soundcore pcspkr joydev snd_page_alloc iTCO_wdt firewire_ohci iTCO_vendor_support firewire_core 3c59x crc_itu_t yenta_socket intel_rng rsrc_nonstatic mii video output parport_pc parport ata_generic pata_acpi sha256_generic cbc aes_i586 aes_generic dm_crypt crypto_blkcipher [last unloaded: microcode]
Pid: 3048, comm: gnome-screensav Not tainted 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 #1
 [<c042bb3a>] warn_slowpath+0x4b/0x6c
 [<c043a716>] ? __queue_work+0x26/0x2b
 [<c043a784>] ? queue_work_on+0x3b/0x46
 [<c048a971>] ? virt_to_head_page+0x22/0x2e
 [<c050c0d4>] ? queue_flag_clear+0x18/0x54
 [<c050c17b>] ? __freed_request+0x6b/0x72
 [<c0420940>] ? __enqueue_entity+0xe3/0xeb
 [<c06a77cc>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x29/0x30
 [<c051bf6e>] ? strlcpy+0x17/0x49
 [<c063e554>] dev_watchdog+0xda/0x12d
 [<c043495a>] ? mod_timer+0x30/0x34
 [<c0635d02>] ? neigh_periodic_timer+0x13f/0x151
 [<c04341f5>] run_timer_softirq+0x14b/0x1bb
 [<c063e47a>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x12d
 [<c063e47a>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x12d
 [<c043076f>] __do_softirq+0x84/0x109
 [<c04306eb>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0x109
 [<c0405eec>] do_softirq+0x77/0xdb
 [<c046417b>] ? handle_level_irq+0x0/0xbe
 [<c04303d6>] irq_exit+0x44/0x83
 [<c0405e5e>] do_IRQ+0xe7/0xfe
 [<c0404654>] common_interrupt+0x28/0x30
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I probably won't report future ones to you unless something indicates a difference or a long pause intervenes.

Thank you.

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Nick