Strange error / warning message shortly after bootup

[Kam Leo]

On 6/6/07, Eric <spamsink at scoot.netis.com> wrote:
>
> Shortly after booting up, I get (on the root console and in dmesg):
>
> BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:138/local_bh_enable() (Tainted: P      )
>  [<c042b0cf>] local_bh_enable+0x45/0x92
>  [<c06002bd>] cond_resched_softirq+0x2c/0x42
>  [<c059adf3>] release_sock+0x4f/0x9d
>  [<c05c670d>] tcp_sendmsg+0x90b/0x9f9
>  [<c0480872>] core_sys_select+0x1ae/0x2f3
>  [<c05dec95>] inet_sendmsg+0x3b/0x45
>  [<c0598731>] sock_aio_write+0xf6/0x102
>  [<c05b44be>] netlink_insert+0x106/0x110
>  [<c04754ee>] do_sync_write+0xc7/0x10a
>  [<c0436e71>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35
>  [<c0475d47>] vfs_write+0xbc/0x154
>  [<c0476342>] sys_write+0x41/0x67
>  [<c0404f70>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>  =======================
>
> Any idea what that's all about?
>
> I get it once and then everything seems fine.
>
> Platform: Fedora 7 as "guest" OS on VMware 6.00 on Windows XP host, 256 MB
> RAM (1GB RAM on host, 256 MB allocated to guest OS, also tried it with 512
> MB allocated to guest with same result) (this has all been rock solid with FC6)

Disable rhgb next time you boot so that you can see what processes are
getting loaded. That message occurs when the VMware drivers gets
loaded.