From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Yan Seiner <yan@seiner.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Processes dying with ENXIO or EINTR - disk related?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:13:17 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4992343D.1040504@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49922CC2.8020705@seiner.com>
Yan Seiner wrote:
>> Highly unlikely it's related to IO.
>>
> I was experimenting with nouveau, an xorg driver for nvidia hardware.
> Turns out that driver left the scsi hardware in a weird state that was
> causing the segfaults. A warm reboot wouldn't cure it; only a total
> power down and wait 30 seconds cycle did. Machine stable since then.
>
> At a guess something in the nouveau driver screwed up the scsi
> controller in the machine.
That's a scary story. :-(
--
tejun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 2:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-02 20:37 Processes dying with ENXIO or EINTR - disk related? Yan Seiner
2009-02-11 1:29 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-11 1:41 ` Yan Seiner
2009-02-11 2:13 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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