Alistair John Strachan writes:

> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:35, Con Kolivas wrote:
>> Chen, Kenneth W writes:
>> > Con Kolivas wrote on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:24 PM
>> >
>> >> Chen, Kenneth W writes:
>> >> > Has people seen this BUG_ON before?  On 2.6.15-rc2, x86-64.
>> >> >
>> >> > Pid: 16500, comm: cc1 Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
>> >> >
>> >> > Pid: 16651, comm: sh Tainted: G    B 2.6.15-rc2 #3
>> >>
>> >>                        ^^^^^^^^^^
>> >>
>> >> Please try to reproduce it without proprietary binary modules linked in.
>> >
>> > ???, I'm not using any modules at all.
>> >
>> > [albat]$ /sbin/lsmod
>> > Module                  Size  Used by
>> > [albat]$
>> >
>> >
>> > Also, isn't it 'P' indicate proprietary module, not 'G'?
>> > line 159: kernel/panic.c:
>> >
>> >         snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "Tainted: %c%c%c%c%c%c",
>> >                 tainted & TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE ? 'P' : 'G',
>>
>> Sorry it's not proprietary module indeed. But what is tainting it?
> 
> Probably a prior oops or some other marked error condition.

My humble apologies! Force of habit when seeing tainted message which 
comes up so often :(

Con