Bug 772398

Summary: Misterious Crashes in dmesg output
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Richard Allen <ra>
Component: kernelAssignee: John Feeney <jfeeney>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.2CC: arozansk
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Errors in dmesg
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Description Richard Allen 2012-01-07 15:50:47 UTC
Created attachment 551371 [details]
Errors in dmesg

Description of problem:
I've got RHEL6.2 installed on a HP 8200 Elite box and dmesg always had crashes I'm not sure what mean or if they need to be fixed.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 6.2 and 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL6.2 on a Elite 8200
2. Run dmesg
3.
  
Actual results:
Crashes in dmesg

Expected results:
Error free dmesg output

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Comment 1 Richard Allen 2012-01-07 15:54:53 UTC
Created attachment 551372 [details]
Full dmesg output

This is the full dmesg output from the machine

Comment 2 Richard Allen 2012-01-07 15:57:09 UTC
Created attachment 551373 [details]
Output from dmidecode

Output from dmidecode

Comment 3 Richard Allen 2012-01-07 15:57:49 UTC
Created attachment 551374 [details]
Output from lspci

Output from lspci

Comment 6 Matthew Garrett 2012-01-13 20:37:40 UTC
Bug in HP's UEFI firmware - GetNextVariable() reports the same name/guid combination multiple times, which is a violation of the spec.