[Bug 399732] [NEW] vboxdrv occasionally fails to load on karmic 2.6.30 kernels due to active nmi_watchdog

[Dinxter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

the vboxdrv module has an occasional load error on karmic 2.6.30
kernels,

Jul 12 07:13:17 crystaltree kernel: [   28.053203] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
Jul 12 07:13:17 crystaltree kernel: [   28.053207] vboxdrv: NMI watchdog either active or at least initialized. Please disable the NMI
Jul 12 07:13:17 crystaltree kernel: [   28.053209] vboxdrv: watchdog by specifying 'nmi_watchdog=0' at kernel command line.

This seems to affect virtualbox 2.2 and the 3. The error is due to vbox
detecting the nmi_watchdog being active although it seems to be
unpredictable for each boot and unaffected by adding nmi_watchdog=0 to
the kernel. checking /proc/interrupts shows,

$ less /proc/interrupts |grep NMI
NMI:          0          0   Non-maskable interrupts

$ apt-show-versions virtualbox-2.2 linux-image-2.6.31-2-generic linux-image-2.6.31-3-generic 
linux-image-2.6.31-2-generic/karmic uptodate 2.6.31-2.17
linux-image-2.6.31-3-generic/karmic uptodate 2.6.31-3.19
virtualbox-2.2/jaunty uptodate 2.2.4-47978_Ubuntu_jaunty

Forum thread here,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1209319

** Affects: virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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vboxdrv occasionally fails to load on karmic 2.6.30 kernels due to active nmi_watchdog
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399732
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