On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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
that bitmask corresponds to a kernel warning having occurred. i
would just grep thusly:
$ dmesg | grep -i taint
which might identify the module that tainted the kernel when it was
loaded.
rday
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