kernel error

[Jon Telfer]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 12:05 +0000, Josh Hunholz wrote:
> Hi. We are trying to set up a server (new for us, but used hardware) 
> with Fedora Core 3, but when we reboot, we keep getting this error:
> 
> newmachine kernel: Badness in interruptible_sleep_on_timeout at 
> kernel/sched.c:3005
> Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<02302989>] 
> interruptible_sleep_on_timeout+0x5d/0x23a
> Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<0211b919>] 
> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
> Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<02302db4>] __cond_resched+0x14/0x3b
> Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<022ac51a>] netdev_run_todo+0x29/0x2bf
> Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<1283ee3d>] 
> rtl8139_thread+0x38/0x13f [8139too]
> Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<1283ee05>] rtl8139_thread+0x0/0x13f 
> [8139too]
> Jan 12 08:27:58 newmachine kernel: [<021041d9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
> 
> My first thought was to try to recompile the kernel, but it isn't 
> letting us do that either.  Can anyone help me with this error? Or 
> explain what type of error it could be? Thanks!
> 
> Josh Hunholz
> 
I had this.  It's a network card module problem.  It didn't seem to
affect the day-to-day running of the system though.  So I didn't tinker
with it at all.  As it happens a friend had a spare NIC and I swapped
the 8139 one.
  Guess that doesn't help much.  Maybe you're having a different problem
that is unrelated to this error, that I found to be harmless.

-- 
Jon Telfer <jon at varshaandjon.plus.com>