Re: "Happy Meal" in /var/log/messages

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:33:52AM -0400, Steven Bradley wrote:
> Perhaps someone needs to contact McDonalds?
> 
> (or more seriously, if this is not someone's idea of a joke, it may mean
> a virus or worm of some kind is present).

It's NOT a worm or a virus.  Do a grep on the kernel source code.
"happy meal" was what some folks at sun called one of their ethernet
cards (or what they called the driver for it.)

Likewise, grep for the "F-word" and you'll find its in there too.  A
lot.


P.S.   Please don't top-post.



> 
> Steven
> 
> Previously, on Mon Jun  9 10:37:40 2003, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Francisco_Ruiz_Iba=F1ez?= said:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 	I have a Linux red hat 7.2. as a router, with kernel 2.4.9-34enterprise and
> > Sun Quad Fast Ethernet network card. It's intel plattform
> > 
> > 	Since last week, the network hangs up for a while, and immediately appears
> > the folowing message in /var/log/messages:
> > 
> > 	"kernel: eth3: Happy Meal out of receive descriptors, packet dropped."
> > 
> > 	Does anybody know what's happening?, And how to solve it?
> > 
> > Regards
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