Booted the machine this afternoon, and in gnome I get a message that goes something like this: Your kernel has had a failure, do you wish to send the stack trace to kerneloops.org (or whatever)? I said yes.
Here is the oops/trace (if those are the proper terms) from /var/log/kern.log: Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.796893] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.796913] WARNING: at /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.32-41-amd64-ReqhZF /linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_amd64_none/fs/fs-writeback.c:1122 __mark_inode_dirty+0xe7/0x14a() Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.796920] Hardware name: Aspire X1430 Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.796923] Modules linked in: loop(+) snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_c odec_atihdmi snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device rfkill psmouse snd i2c_piix4 serio_raw led_class pcspkr evdev soundcore fglrx(P) wmi snd_page_alloc i2c_core button proc essor ext3 jbd mbcache sg sr_mod sd_mod crc_t10dif cdrom ata_generic usb_storage r8168 pata_atiixp ohci_hc d ahci thermal libata ehci_hcd r8169 mii thermal_sys scsi_mod usbcore nls_base [last unloaded: scsi_wait_s can] Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.796993] Pid: 763, comm: udisks-part-id Tainted: P 2.6.32 -5-amd64 #1 Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.796998] Call Trace: Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797008] [<ffffffff811088bb>] ? __mark_inode_dirty+0xe7/0x14a Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797016] [<ffffffff811088bb>] ? __mark_inode_dirty+0xe7/0x14a Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797024] [<ffffffff8104df9c>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa3 Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797033] [<ffffffff811088bb>] ? __mark_inode_dirty+0xe7/0x14a Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797042] [<ffffffff810ffe04>] ? touch_atime+0xfe/0x127 Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797050] [<ffffffff810b5b40>] ? generic_file_aio_read+0x499/0x536 Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797058] [<ffffffff810eee91>] ? do_sync_read+0xce/0x113 Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797066] [<ffffffff8106502a>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797074] [<ffffffff810ccdd2>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x35c/0x80f Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797081] [<ffffffff810ef8b4>] ? vfs_read+0xa6/0xff Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797087] [<ffffffff810ef9c9>] ? sys_read+0x45/0x6e Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797095] [<ffffffff81010b42>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Feb 4 14:41:52 einstein kernel: [ 6.797099] ---[ end trace ab2cb3c5007e88c2 ]--- Is there anybody who can tell me what this signifies? This machine is two months old. I have the feeling that nobody will be able to say whether this is hardware, software, bad karma, or all of the above. There will be nothing to do but ensure proper backups have been made and wait. Anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnjiqfgp.24b.cu...@einstein.electron.org