Bug 772398 - Misterious Crashes in dmesg output
Summary: Misterious Crashes in dmesg output
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: John Feeney
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-07 15:50 UTC by Richard Allen
Modified: 2013-01-10 07:43 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-01-13 20:37:40 UTC
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Errors in dmesg (8.40 KB, text/plain)
2012-01-07 15:50 UTC, Richard Allen 		no flags Details
Full dmesg output (71.27 KB, text/plain)
2012-01-07 15:54 UTC, Richard Allen 		no flags Details
Output from dmidecode (22.26 KB, text/plain)
2012-01-07 15:57 UTC, Richard Allen 		no flags Details
Output from lspci (18.87 KB, text/plain)
2012-01-07 15:57 UTC, Richard Allen 		no flags Details
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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

Additional info:

Adding attachements with more info:
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.
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