Re: spurious kernel error

2007-03-30 Thread Len Brown
On Friday 30 March 2007 03:36, Zach wrote: > kern.log:Mar 29 23:44:36 netrek kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. A spurious interrupt isn't necessarily a "spurious kernel error", it means that the kernel went to service an interrupt and didn't find any sources.

spurious kernel error

2007-03-29 Thread Zach
I just noticed this weird kernel message while looking through /var/log/ , I have never noticed this error to occur before and below is the only mention of it I could find in my log files: netrek:/var/log# grep IRQ7 * kern.log:Mar 29 23:44:36 netrek kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. kernel: