kernel BUG at kernel/exit.c:855!

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:41:13AM +0100, Adam Mercer wrote:
> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:41:13 +0100
> From: Adam Mercer <r.a.mercer at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: kernel BUG at kernel/exit.c:855!
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> 
> >Tainted? Just curious, what chunk of code taints your kernel.
> 
> vmnet(U) vmmon(U)
> 
> Looks like VMWare modules
> 

So this makes me suspect that this line 

   kernel: EIP:    0060:[<02123b4d>]    Tainted:

is telling me that the extended instruction pointer (EIP) was in
VMWare code when it went off in the wild blue yonder.

Was the vmware virtual machine active or idle?


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