Unusual missive from RedHat kernel

[dreamshark]

Seen on one of our test lab hosts today. This can't be good....

[root@st2078 ~]#

Message from syslogd@ at Fri Dec 17 16:40:37 2010 ...

st2078 kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 2c.

Message from syslogd@ at Fri Dec 17 16:40:37 2010 ...

st2078 kernel: Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@ at Fri Dec 17 16:40:37 2010 ...

st2078 kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

Comments

[quadong.livejournal.com]

That looks familiar. I'm pretty sure I saw it a long long time ago (5 years?) on my desktop machine. So if it's a problem, at least it's an old one.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll bet that message has been in the code since about 1985 (or whenever it was that Linux burst onto the scene). I dimly remember seeing it some time too. It doesn't come up very often (fortunately).