Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:13:21 +0300 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | 2.4.22pre8 hangs too (Re: 2.4.21-jam1, aic7xxx-6.2.36: solid hangs) |
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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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