Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:46:08 +0200 (EET) | From | flexy@nic ... | Subject | Keyboard/console lockups, Magic SysRQ fails [2.4.20(-pre3)] |
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I've started testing linux 2.4.x on this hardware around last May, I have had this problem ever since.
Problem is that keyboard goes unresponsive and console stops updating every now and then, seems that this happens randomly. Kernel keeps doing other stuff, like I can play oggs from another machine that are being shared by samba. Hitting caps lock key seems to fix this most of the time, sometimes on the first try, othertimes I have to hit it like dozen or more times. Sometimes I'm not patient enough to keep hitting the caps lock long enough, so I figure it does not help everytime. Only thing I can imagine is related to this, I have _once_ seen on the logs something like "Missing ACK from keyboard several times, noisy keyboard cable?" I don't know if this is relevant. I have tried this with 1 ps2 keyboard and with MS keyboard that has both ps2 and usb connectors. No matter what keyboard/connector I use, the stucking still happens. IIRC, around 2.4.19 this problem might have eased a little.
Now, I have ditched the other OS from this machine, changed it totally to linux and purchased 1Gb NIC. Unless I'm going blind, it seems that there is no support for this card in 2.4.19, so I have to use 2.4.20. And it seems that the lockings happen more often when the kernel is NOT 2.4.19. I haven't really tried with 2.4.19 anymore, since I need to try to keep the NATed win machine on that 1Gb NIC connected to net and my wife happy that way...
I've tried with 2.4.20 and 2.4.20-pre3, both of them have this keyboard/console stucking thing. Plus, it seems that I've got a new problem. Now kernel goes totally stuck sometimes. Magic keys does not respond all of the times, other stuff (NAT, Samba) stops working. After this kind of lockups the filesystem (ext3) needed a check. (Here I propably screwed up by doing 'mount -n -o remount,rw /' before using fsck) After one run of fsck, it suggests to run it again and when doing it, IIRC, it plays the journal. After this, fsck finds a truckload of errors, fixing them results in massive filesystem corruption (missing /sbin and stuff like that).
OK, I realize now that using fsck on mounted filesystem was propably not wise, but I think I have gotten away with that in the past without any problems... OK, after 2 or 3 massive filesystem damages and a reinstalls I went with ext2 and continued trying to find the problem (and stopped running fsck on mounted filesystem). I followed the "KISS" rule and stripped everything I don't absolutely need out of the kernel. Same stucking problems continues, now without filesystem corruptions (fsck at boot fixes successfully things). One time I could ssh to that stucked box, it seemed that X (4.2) was stuck, was not able to stop it. Also 'shutdown -r now' failed. OK, I replaced X with 3.3.6, which should be stable... On the very first boot, total lock up, not able to ssh to it. OK, I removed X alltogether and ran 'chmod 644 <service>' at /etc/init.d/ on the services I know I don't need while trying to find the problem. Yet these lockups happen every now and then. Mostly of the caps lock -curable things.
I have a parallel null modem cable, I could use it to find more info about lock ups, with some detailed info... If you can give me any instructions how to help me give more useful information, I would be happy to follow them.
Here is information on my system:
Motherboard: MSI K7D Master-L, with built-in LAN. (e100 module)
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=73&MODEL=MS-6501
512MB DDR memory, with ECC, ECC correcting enabled in BIOS. 2*XP1600+ cpus Intel PRO/1000 MT 1Gbps NIC with 82540 controller (e1000 module) S3 PCI display adapter Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A, risc powered raid5 with 4*60GB IBM 60GXP hard disks
and then now unused components during the fault finding: LG CED-8080B CDRW ALPS DC544C 4x4 CD-changer
Flexy
P.S. Using automounter with the changer has got the system stuck tree times already. (ide-scsi) Disabled automounter, did not use the changer, but when reading a bad audioCD with CDRW player, another lock up.
P.P.S. This same hardware (with the exception of new Intel NIC and instead of AGP display adapter, now using PCI S3(this S3 has been running on a different linux machine with uptimes over 90 days, so I believe the card is ok)) has been running fine and stable in windows for almost a year now, so unless it has something to do with the Intel NIC card, I don't believe I have faulty HW.
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