kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason...

[drago01]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:48:50PM +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
>  > > Why do you think it is a faulty driver? For me it seems that most
>  > > obvious reason for triggering a NMI is a buggy hardware.
>
> > I know that there are drivers that produce NMI faults. I never saw that
>  > on linux, though.
>
>  NMI is almost always indicating hardware problems and there are very few
>  software ways to cause them on x86.

Is a corrupt /var/lib/random-seed one of them?
I remember seeing this once in the past (x86_64) ...