Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.74-mm1 | Date | Sun, 6 Jul 2003 02:10:32 +0200 |
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On Saturday 05 July 2003 21:14, Andrew Morton wrote: > Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> 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
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