annoying syslog message from kernel

[Peter Lemenkov]

Joseph Sacco <jsacco <at> gnome.org> writes:

> 
> I started seeing these messages
> 
>         Message from syslogd <at>  at Mon Jun  4 04:40:20 2007 ...
>         plantain kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> a while back. Not harmful, but annoying.

It looks more harmful at closer look, actually. If you inspect your
/var/log/messages you'll see something like:

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Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: Badness at kernel/softirq.c:138
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: Call Trace:
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BBD0] [C0008AB0] show_stack+0x50/0x184
(unreliable)
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BBF0] [C012072C] report_bug+0x84/0xc8
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BC00] [C02B1A2C]
__kprobes_text_start+0x154/0x538
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BC50] [C0013280] 
ret_from_except_full+0x0/0x4c
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: --- Exception: 700 at local_bh_enable+0x28/0x8c
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel:     LR = cond_resched_softirq+0x58/0x80
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BD10] [24002428] 0x24002428 (unreliable)
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BD20] [C02B0344] 
cond_resched_softirq+0x58/0x80
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BD30] [C0231D30] release_sock+0x54/0xac
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BD50] [C0269B20] tcp_sendmsg+0xac0/0xbf8
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BDB0] [C028666C] inet_sendmsg+0x60/0x74
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BDD0] [C022ED68] sock_aio_write+0x114/0x130
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BE30] [C008FF38] do_sync_write+0xb8/0x10c
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BEF0] [C0090B10] vfs_write+0x104/0x1c8
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BF10] [C00911AC] sys_write+0x4c/0x8c
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: [DA18BF40] [C0012C24] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel: --- Exception: c01 at 0x1fabb098
Jun  5 07:49:48 Sulaco kernel:     LR = 0x2002b430
Jun  5 07:50:13 Sulaco gconfd (petro-1954): GConf server is not in use, shutting
down.
Jun  5 07:50:13 Sulaco gconfd (petro-1954): Exiting

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I also encountered this nasty behavior.