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The kernel will mark itself as 'tainted' when something occurs that might be relevant later when investigating problems. Don't worry too much about this, most of the time it's not a problem to run a tainted kernel; the information is mainly of interest once someone wants to investigate some problem, as its real cause might be the event that got the kernel tainted. That's why bug reports from tainted kernels will often be ignored by developers, hence try to reproduce problems with an untainted kernel. Note the kernel will remain tainted even after you undo what caused the taint (i.e. unload a proprietary kernel module), to indicate the kernel remains not trustworthy. That's also why the kernel will print the tainted state when it notices an internal problem (a 'kernel bug'), a recoverable error ('kernel oops') or a non-recoverable error ('kernel panic') and writes debug information about this to the logs dmesg outputs. It's also possible to check the tainted state at runtime through a file in /proc/.
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taint-mode is when I rub my grundle on the keyboard
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wish someone would taint the forums to repel this thread
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The taint message is there so that the kernel developers know if they should throw a bug report in the garbage or if it's actually worth looking at. All our linuxes at work are tainted thanks to "security" software, lol
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Oct 26, 2019 14:11
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not about perl, gas
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Oct 26, 2019 16:44
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Soricidus posted:not about perl, gas could have been a dumbass emacs thread
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Oct 27, 2019 06:06
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wow I never thought someone would make a parody thread for one of mine
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Silver Alicorn posted:wow I never thought someone would make a parody thread for one of mine 😘
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hello, comrade
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