Hi I’ve been away from my PC for a week or so, and of course coming back and running the updated command I find 400+ Mb of updates. The latest kernel is 5.5.5-200 and after login I’m getting the following errors reported: A kernel problem occurred, but your kernel has been tainted (flags:POE). Ex…

Maybe you rather need to blacklist the offending modules to “un-taint” the Kernel, and then make a bug report.

Here is the response… [xxx@wasteland ~]$ dmesg | grep -i taint [ 6.864489] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 6.864495] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [ 6.864496] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint [ 6.892318] nvidia: module verification failed…

I’m not sure why you’re seeing this recently. The message means the proprietary kernel module is being used, but since it isn’t signed, this taints the kernel. That’s not an inherently bad thing, it’s just an info message that this isn’t a signed module. I’ve asked a few more technical questions on …

I’ve had the propriety Nvidia drivers till about ~6 months ago or longer, but since the I’ve installed the ones recommended by fedora: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Current_GeForce.2FQuadro.2FTesla I thought I got rid of the old proprietary driver… (to be honest I don’t remember how I uninsta…

Hello! I have the same problem atm. Kernel upgrade to 5.5.5 leads to the same crash. I have optimus laptop and need Nvidia drivers for work. It is installed from Fusion repo. Worked before 5.5.5 and it’s not fixed with recent 5.5.6. [ 7.503213] CPU: 1 PID: 414 Comm: plymouthd Tainted: P …

Is there any update on this? I have the exact same problem. Just installed the nvidia drivers via rpm fusion and get this now everytime after I logged in.

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Kernel Tainted after running updates

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chrismurphy (Chris Murphy) February 25, 2020, 12:15am 2

dmesg | grep -i taint might reveal the reason

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