kernel tainted?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> I got this error report today:
>
> A kernel problem occurred, but your kernel has been tainted (flags:GW).
> Kernel maintainers are unable to diagnose tainted reports.
>
> not sure where to look in /var/log, nothing in messages.
>
>  what does it mean?

  what's the value in your /proc/sys/kernel/tainted file?

rday

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