Spurious Interrupt, or, in full, Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ 7, is a warning message printed out (in this case by the Linux kernel) to indicate a hardware interrupt has occured, but there is no software driver handling this interrupt. It's generally harmless and usually only occurs during bootup when perhaps a piece of hardware does something and the OS isn't quite ready for it. If it happens often, and after bootup, it either means you have a piece of hardware that the system just doesn't know how to handle at all, or there's a serious problem with something.
I'm not sure why I decided to name this site Spurious Interrupt, but it sounded cool. The only downside I see is that the domain name is long and somewhat annoying to type. Ah well. Such is life.
last modified 7 oct 2005 at 17:30.