Re: 2.5.74-mm1

[Daniel Phillips]

On Saturday 05 July 2003 21:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Daniel Phillips <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Kgdb is no help in
> > diagnosing, as the kgdb stub also goes comatose, or at least the serial
> > link does.  No lockups have occurred so far when I was not interacting
> > with the system via the keyboard or mouse.  Suggestions?
>
> Enable IO APIC, Local APIC, nmi watchdog.  Use serial console, see if you
> can get a sysrq trace out of it.  That's `^A F T' in minicom.

OK, tried that.  Still very dead.

> I mean, it _has_ to be either stuck with interrupts on, or stuck with them
> off.

Interesting data: it always hangs on the 4th iteration of Ctrl-Alt-F7, 
Ctrl-Alt-F2.  This smells like a bios stack overflow.  I think I'd better go 
poke at the vendor at this point, no?

I do feel Linux is exonerated, but then this just shows why we need to keep on 
moving, right on into the bios.

Regards,

Daniel