On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 14:16 +1100, Gerry Butler wrote: > Subject: linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64: Kernel logs WARNING at hpet.c:390. > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.31-1 > Severity: normal > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > syslog reports WARNING at hpet.c:390. > > The system appears to run normally, except for a single message from > GNOME: "Your system had a kernel failure". However, hpet.c:390 is an > invocation > of macro WARN_ON_ONCE, so I wonder if the system might be taking a > performance hit if the fault is actually occurring many times (see below > for more information on this). > > The computer is a new Intel core i7-860, Chipset P55, Gigabyte P55UD3p, > nVidia Geforce 9600GT. Two Seagate 1TB disks in mirrored RAID > configuration. > > The fault initially occurred in the stable lenny distribution with > kernel 2.6.26. > > I installed linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64 from sid to see if it would go > away. It didn't. [...] Please report this upstream at <http://bugzilla.kernel.org> under the product 'Platform Specific/Hardware' and component 'x86-64'. Let us know the bug number so we can track it. You may get some useful information for the upstream developers to work on by booting with 'hpet=verbose' added to the kernel command line. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody.
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