If something has corrupted memory, we typically see a whole bunch of things start crashing. This leads to situations where abrt files a lot of bugs, even though most of them are just fallout from the first. an example: bugs 710925 710930 710932 710933 710935 710942 710948 710955 710956 are all the same crash. The traces and addresses are different, but 'something scribbled over memory' is the root cause here. Sadly out of all those bugs, we actually somehow missed the first crash which is the most relevant one. (That one would have not had the 'Tainted: G B' text) (as an aside, look at the time: field on the text abrt filed. somehow they got filed out of order, which made things even more confusing). All those bugs happened across three different days, but some of the timestamps show that they were very close together, so at least half of these could have not been filed. The only useful bugs out of that list are the untainted ones.
Let's make proper fix. What kind of tainted flags are for kernel guys relevant?
Actually, if you fix 708534, so that abrt parses the oops text instead of relying on /proc/sys/kernel/tainted, we could just say "don't file any bugs that are tainted". But because we're using the sysctl, we're always going to show 'G' 'B' 'W' 'D', which we only care for the first instance. Any other flags, we can't do anything about (machine checks, bad bios, proprietary modules etc). If abrt wants to pop up a dialog explaining that, that's fine, but explain that filing a bug would be pointless.
fix has landed the git
abrt-2.0.4.981-3.fc16,libreport-2.0.6-2.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.4.981-3.fc16,libreport-2.0.6-2.fc16
abrt-2.0.3-5.fc15,libreport-2.0.4-4.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.3-5.fc15,libreport-2.0.4-4.fc15
Package abrt-2.0.3-5.fc15, libreport-2.0.4-4.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing abrt-2.0.3-5.fc15 libreport-2.0.4-4.fc15' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-14015 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
abrt-2.0.4.981-3.fc16, libreport-2.0.6-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
abrt-2.0.3-5.fc15, libreport-2.0.4-4.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.