[mythtv] what's this dmesg output mean?
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Jan 15 13:28:00 UTC 2006
Kirby Bakken wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Kirby Bakken wrote:
>>> Running a Fusion5 Gold card, and an HD5000 card. Biostar MB with Nvidia
>>> 6200 PCIe card. Kernel 2.6.15-gentoo. Nvidia video version 8178 (and
>>> yes, GL Vsync doesn't work.. I live with the occasional 'horizontal
>>> seam'. Also, I'm running SVN 8605.
>>>
>>> When watching LiveTv (perhaps watching recordings, I haven't checked
>>> that yet), I get this output from 'dmesg':
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
>>> Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'mythfrontend', page
>>> ffff8100013dbdc8)
>>> flags:0x0100000000000400 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:0 count:0
>>> Backtrace:
>>>
>>> Call Trace:<ffffffff8015bd64>{bad_page+113}
>>> <ffffffff8015c5a5>{free_hot_cold_page+102}
>>> <ffffffff8829eb3b>{:nvidia:nv_vm_free_pages+604}
>>> <ffffffff88299b23>{:nvidia:nv_kern_vma_release+136}
>>> <ffffffff8016afbb>{remove_vma+33} <ffffffff8016d0a7>{exit_mmap+205}
>>> <ffffffff80135806>{mmput+35} <ffffffff8013a519>{do_exit+530}
>>> <ffffffff8013afc6>{sys_exit_group+0}
>>> <ffffffff8010f91a>{system_call+126}
>> So, did you? ("Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed") Did
>> rebooting fix it?
>>
> Well, that's just it... there's really nothing 'noticeable' to fix
> up... The mythfrontend still seems to be fine... It was only because I
> was experimenting with my DVICO remote control and looking at dmesg that
> I noticed all the 'errata' from this 'apparent' problem. I was hoping
> someone in development might recognize what's happening and elaborate.
> If nobody comes up with anything, I'll play around and see if I can
> pinpoint what is causing all these 'warning/error' messages.
And the answer to my question is? Once again, in case you forgot, did
you reboot?
Mike
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