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    Subject2.4.22pre8 hangs too (Re: 2.4.21-jam1, aic7xxx-6.2.36: solid hangs)
    On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:39:48AM +0300, you [Ville Herva] wrote:
    > After about a year of stable operation, a server begun acting up. First it
    > begun hanging up solid during the nightly oracle backup (that had run
    > successfully for a year), the I got some aic7xxx-related crashes on boot.
    >
    > Initially, the box ran 2.4.20pre7 kernel with aic7xxx version 6.4.8. When
    > the hangs started happening, I upgraded to 2.4.21-jam1 (basically 2.4.21
    > vanilla + -aa patch + some minor stuff) that includes aic7xxx version 6.2.36.
    > It did not help.
    >
    > I enabled kmsgdump and nmi watchdog, but when the box hangs, it hangs solid:
    > no ctrl-alt-del, no caps lock led, no alt-sysrq-b, no kmsgdump, nmi watchdog
    > doesn't trigger. Only the cursor on the console blinks, but no messages from
    > the kernel appear. (Apart from "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7." that
    > always happens sometime after boot on this box, but way before the hang.)

    Herbert Pötzl indicted that he'd had similar lockups with fairly similar hw
    up until 2.4.22pre6. He suggested I should try 2.4.22pre8.

    2.4.22pre8 locked up the same way in about 10 hours.

    > Any ideas on how to to debug this kind of hang?

    The question still stands; how do I debug this?

    > Does it sound kernel/driver or hw related? Are the two crashes related to
    > the hang? Is the hang related to aic7xxx?

    Any ideas?



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