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

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

darrell pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 14:11 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
>>  > > Hence logic says that something that is being change between kernels
>>  > > are causing this otherwise the kernel would ALWAYS being reporting
>>  > > this...
>>  >
>>  > Unlikely - hardware problems are often dependant on alignment of objects
>>  > and other chance happenings. If you've got bad RAM and the faulty bits happen
>>  > to land in a location where the faulty bits don't show a fault (its often
>>  > combination based) you'll see exactly what is described.
>>  >
>>  > > If anyone can tell me how I can *debug* it further
>>  > > I'm all ears..
>>  >
>>  > memtest86 full night run is what I usually start with for such cases.
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>>  I've seen this problem on a Dell Insprion 6000 as well, its definitely a
>>  machine problem as opposed to a bad RAM case... I've never tracked down
>>  what triggers it though... it may be heat related ...
>>
>>     
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 9300. A few months ago the NMI problem suddenly
> appeared and was happening almost daily. I update from Rawhide pretty
> much daily and after a week or so the problem disappeared.
>
> After today's kernel update
>
> 2.6.25-0.113.rc5.git2.fc9
>
> the problem reappeared (so much for taking pleasure in the misfortune
> of others, sigh)
>
> I'm also more inclined to think that it is a driver problem rather
> than a hardware problem.
>
> darrell
>
>   
could take a look at the running temperature on the laptop
when it's reporting this..
( confirming or not confirming it could be heat related.. )

Best regards
                    Johann B.
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