FC3 Kernel Errors - 182000 lines of them this morning?

[David Hoffman]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:54:34 -0500, Chris Ruprecht <chris at ruprecht.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have this error in my log:
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/workqueue.c:82: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40140.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/sched.c:2871: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40168.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/sched.c:2873: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40168.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/workqueue.c:87: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40140.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/fork.c:131: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40168.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/fork.c:133: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40168.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/workqueue.c:153: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40140.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/workqueue.c:168: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40140.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/workqueue.c:174: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40140.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/workqueue.c:179: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40140.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/fork.c:108: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40168.
> Jan 20 03:09:41 uranus kernel: kernel/fork.c:110: spin_is_locked on
> uninitialized spinlock 41f40168.
> 
> over 182000 lines of it, repeating every 2 seconds or so.
> 
> Kernel: 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 #1 Thu Nov 18 15:10:10 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux
> Machine: IBM ThinkPad T42, 1 GB RAM, booted with vga=792 which switches
> frame buffers on.
> 
> I'm using this kernel since all newer kernels crash (panic) within 4
> hours of running, the 2.6.10 kernels panic at boot.
> 
> Any idea what is causing this?
> 


Did you try google? There are some articles about it happening with
other Thinkpads...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-18%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=%22spin_is_locked+on%22+kernel+fedora