Tainted kernels

Kevin Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Apr 28 20:01:04 UTC 2015


On 04/28/2015 03:53 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Earlier, I'd asked about what was causing abrt to claim that my laptop's
> kernel was tainted, even though I don't know of anything that would
> cause this.  Somebody asked me to check a certain location in /proc,
> which turned out not to exist on the laptop.  I'd like to check again,
> and check it on my desktop as well because I know the desktop's kernel
> is tainted by kmod-nvidia, and that would give me a good way to compare
> a known-tainted kernel with my laptop's.  Alas, I've lost the email with
> the pointer in it.  If anybody remembers what I'm supposed to check,
> please let me know.  Thanx!

/proc/sys/kernel/tainted

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