Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:02:37 -0700 | From | "Barrett G. Lyon" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.12 locking up |
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At 11:44 PM 9/28/99 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Aaron Holtzman wrote: > >> It would seem that Nate Riffe (inkblot@geocities.com) said: >> > On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Tom Sutterfield wrote: >> > >> > > Anyone had any problems with their box locking up, and nothing >> > > being logged in /var/log/messages? >> > > >> > >> > Yes. It usually happens while I'm running X, but it has happened without >> > X running before. Generally there is disk activity and network activity >> > at the time of the lockup as well. I suspect the kernel is having >> > problems with interrupts happening simultaneously, but I can't verify >> > that. >> > >> >> I'm having exactly the same problems, hard lock and no debug messages. >> Magic sys-req are dead too, but ATX reset still works. > >Exactly the same problem here. > >> I'm running >> 2.2.12 SMP, IDE root fs, Adaptec 2940 SCSI with a DVD, and a Realtek 8139. > >Probably not the Realtek, I had a Realtek card and switched to a 3c905 and >the freezes still happen (they've been happing since 2.2.10, but have >gotten much less frequent with each version). I'm running 2.2.12 single >processor, IDE root fs and CDROM, and Adaptec 1542 SCSI. > >Could it be a problem with mixed IDE and SCSI drives? It seems like it >would have come up sooner if that were the case. Disk activity was >involved in every crash that I can remember. When there's network >activity I suspect it's incoming mail, but the 04:00 daily cron jobs >sometimes do it, too. >
I have the same problem with 2.2.12 and newer. What happens is for whatever reason the system takes over the cpu, and the box falls over. That's all I have been able to observe.
-Barrett
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