bad scheduling from the idle thread

[mogwai]

This happens seemingly randomly. The error is:
[ 1308.068864] bad: scheduling from the idle thread!
[ 1308.068873] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-9-generic #1
[ 1308.068877] [<c037c4b6>] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f
[ 1308.068886] [<c0122b8a>] dequeue_task_idle+0x2a/0x40
[ 1308.068892] [<c012107f>] dequeue_task+0xcf/0x130
[ 1308.068898] [<c012112a>] deactivate_task+0x1a/0x30
[ 1308.068904] [<c037cad3>] schedule+0x4b3/0x790
[ 1308.068910] [<c014a72d>] ? enqueue_hrtimer+0x7d/0x130
[ 1308.068918] [<c01028cd>] cpu_idle+0xbd/0x140
[ 1308.068924] [<c037a711>] start_secondary+0x9d/0xcc

It just repeats over and over until several of my log files expand to GigaBytes in size, by which time the computer is virtually useless and eventually freezes. Screenshots of the messages in gnome-terminal and one of my process list while this is happening are attached.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic 2.6.27-9.19
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=8a734010-6073-4b81-ab64-a31b488b33d6 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-9.19-generic
SourcePackage: linux

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. This bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 286285. Please feel free to report any other bugs you find.