I experience simular problems with 2.2.19(pre6) on a SMP machine at work.
Random lockups, tried removing SCSI adapter, sound card, replaced network
card all didn't help. My last action was replacing the videocard.....
Since then I havn't had any lockups, before they came at least once a day
but mostle almost every hour :-((
Mobo MSI 394D 2 x Copmin 677 MHz, 128 MB, no O.C. S3 video card.
regards
Kees
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple of weeks age I reported a couple of problems. The first two turned
> out not to be serious but the third, where the system freezes, has not
> stopped happening. Several other people have reported similar problems...
>
> Typically my system will die while kde2.1 is starting (about 1 time in 4) or
> shortly after I start a caching news server (newsplex), another common
> trigger is dpkg, when reading its database just before it starts up unpack
> packages. If it gets thru these hurdles it may last up to three days - most
> of the time I am luckly to get one...
>
> Once it hangs its really hung. A ups cannot trigger a shutdown, sysrq is
> dead, the num lock indicator will not toggle. Trying to use shift, alt or
> control + shiftlock does not result in any data on a serial console, nor are
> there any unexpected messages there. Also pinging from the box running the
> serial console gets no answers during a stall. The software watchdog does
> not get triggered either.
>
> I would love NOT to have to be such close friends with the reset button.
> (reiserfs has been very usefully with all the crashes...)
>
> I have install kdb on the off chance that I can hit PAUSE fast enought to it
> to do a bt command one time it freezes. What else can be done to debug this?
> Could this be related to the memory problems reported reciently?
>
> TIA
> Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
>
> Current kernel is 2.4.2-ac7 + kdb 1.8
> K6-III 400 via mp3 128M
> mga400max AGP (x1) with xfree 4.02 driver
> SB16 ISA, nonpnp using alsa 5.10b drivers
> USR ISA modem, nonpnp
> Tuplip based card connected to an small internal 100BaseT network
> VIA Rhine based cards connected to a 10BaseT xDSL modem
> no scsi
> hda=13G hdb=4.3G (both quantum, UDMA2) hdc=CDROM hdd=tape (both ATAPI PIO)
> usb optical MS mouse
> My root filesystem is on reiserfs and reiserfsck tells me its fine when
> booted from a recovery partition.
>
> On Feb 6 Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> >System hangs. This box has been quite stable. The hangs started
> >appearing around 2.4.1 or so. I very much doubt they are heat releated. I
> >have had heat problems in the past an have moved the kit into a much better
> >case. The old symptoms (ide tape problems) have gone and not returned even
> >on the hotest summer day... Next time this happens I will try to telnet or
> >ssh into box to see if anything is active, I will also setup a UPS on the
> >box and see it that can shut it down. Its interesting that the software
> >watchdog does not get triggered.
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