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Bug 697414

Summary: repeated kernel messages: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component: kernelAssignee: Shyam Iyer <shiyer>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.1CC: arozansk, dzickus, peterm
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Milos Malik 2011-04-18 07:54:45 UTC
Description of problem:
I'm seeing weird messages on the console of a freshly installed machine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL6.1-20110415.n.0
kernel-headers-2.6.32-131.0.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-131.0.1.el6.noarch
kernel-devel-2.6.32-131.0.1.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-131.0.1.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
not sure

Actual results:
Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 03:48:06 ...
 kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 00 on CPU 3.

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 03:48:06 ...
 kernel:Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 03:48:06 ...
 kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

Expected results:
no such messages

Comment 3 Milos Malik 2011-04-18 08:35:01 UTC
New messages still appear even though I'm not doing anything on the machine:

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 04:26:06 ...
 kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 00 on CPU 2.

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 04:26:06 ...
 kernel:Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 04:26:06 ...
 kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 04:27:22 ...
 kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 0.

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 04:27:22 ...
 kernel:Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 04:27:22 ...
 kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 04:27:39 ...
 kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 00 on CPU 3.

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 04:27:39 ...
 kernel:Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@dell-pesc1425-01 at Apr 18 04:27:39 ...
 kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

Comment 4 Don Zickus 2011-04-18 17:29:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 688547 ***