Messages in this thread | | | From | Chr <> | Subject | Re: The never ending BEEEEP/__smp_call_function_mask with 2.6.25-rc7 | Date | Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:51:08 +0200 |
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On Monday 31 March 2008 09:10:34 Andi Kleen wrote: > Chr <chunkeey@web.de> writes: > > Ever since I went to the new 2.6.25-rcX, I encountered lots of random > > system freezes after about 2 or 3 hours of uptime... but until now, > > I couldn't _catch_ them, since the system > > (AMD Athlon 4200+ X2 (Manchester) / nforce 4 SLI / x86_64) went > > straight into oblivion (nothing on the serial console or anywhere else, > > heck I couldn't even hit reset, It didn't POST anymore) > > Not POSTing would point to some kind of hardware problem. Normally > the kernel shouldn't be able to cause that. Normally yes.. but this is the first time that this ever happend! (And my system has been stable so far (more than a year now, in fact more like 2 years)... even with nvidia & madwifi drivers!).
> > I would recommend you double check if the problem is really not > there with an older kernel by going back there and testing. Well... older kernels won't freeze that way.. I can hit reset whenever I want and it still POSTs.
But, I'll try... maybe I get another change. (BTW, if it happends again, is there anything special, that could help to find the real bugs?) > > -Andi Regards, Chr.
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