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From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH]: Re: NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?) - nope
Date: 23 Dec 2002 15:12:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1040656341.23373.18.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1040293420.12106.13.camel@lemsip>

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On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:23, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A firewall of ours recently went tits up (2.4.19). It was still routing
> traffic but when I connected to SSH for example the SSH banner would not
> appear, it looked like all userspace was dead.
> 
> When we looked in the logs there was this. Presumably the hardware is
> broken. But I wonder if anyone can confirm this? Thanks!
> 
> NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)

Turns out to be a 2bit ECC error. The machine is a dell power-edge 350.

--- linux-2.4.19.orig/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c	Mon Dec 23 13:28:32 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c	Mon Dec 23 15:11:24 2002
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@
 {
 	unsigned long i;
 
-	printk("NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)\n");
+	printk("NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt / ECC RAM error?)\n");
 	show_registers(regs);
 
 	/* Re-enable the IOCK line, wait for a few seconds */


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-23 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-19 10:23 NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?) - nope Gianni Tedesco
2002-12-23 15:12 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2002-12-23 15:28   ` [PATCH]: " Dave Jones
2002-12-23 16:41     ` Randy.Dunlap

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