kernel tainted?

[Paul Cartwright]

On 03/13/2014 10:23 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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
>
 cat tainted
512

running fedora 20 amd_64
cat /etc/os*
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="20 (Heisenbug)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=20
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 20 (Heisenbug)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=20
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=20

uname -a
Linux pauls-server 3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 7 17:02:28 UTC
2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


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Paul Cartwright
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