FC3 Kernel Errors - 182000 lines of them this morning?

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Fri Jan 21 13:10:01 UTC 2005


Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> I have this error in my log:
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/workqueue.c:82: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40140.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/sched.c:2871: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40168.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/sched.c:2873: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40168.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/workqueue.c:87: spin_is_locked on
<snip spinlock errors>
> Kernel: 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 #1 Thu Nov 18 15:10:10 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> Machine: IBM ThinkPad T42, 1 GB RAM, booted with vga=792 which switches
> frame buffers on.
> 
> I'm using this kernel since all newer kernels crash (panic) within 4
> hours of running, the 2.6.10 kernels panic at boot.
> 
> Any idea what is causing this?

Are you using any ATi / nVidia drivers? VMWare?

The actual error messages are new ones that are there to detect locking
problems. Very often, they will be caused by out-of-kernel modules.

James.

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