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From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: Charles Leggett <CGLeggett@lbl.gov>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system hangs with no warning or errors
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:48:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a87484905061711481f706662@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119033617.4663.90.camel@annwm.lbl.gov>

On 6/17/05, Charles Leggett <CGLeggett@lbl.gov> wrote:
> 
> I'm running a dual opteron, debian unstable based system, which hangs
> at random intervals with no errors being written to any of the log
> files. I'm currently using a 64 bit kernel 2.6.11-rc5, but I've seen
> this behaviour with a series of kernels since 2.6.9. Sometimes the
> system sometimes runs for several weeks between hangs, and sometimes
> hangs twice in a day. When it hangs, the screen freezes, and is
> completely unresponsive to all keyboard/mouse input, and will not
> respond to pings over the network. It is not an X problem.
> 
> I was previously running CentOS with a 2.4.21 kenel for several months,
> and experienced no problems, so I don't think it is a hardware problem.
> 
> I know that this is a very anemic bug report, I'm sorry I can't offer
> any more information. Any suggestions for things to look for, what
> to instrument to get more detailed information, or things to try are
> welcome.
> 
The very first thing I would try would be to try the most recent
kernels; the stable kernel 2.6.11.12 and the development kernels
2.6.12-rc6, 2.6.12-rc6-git8 & 2.6.12-rc6-mm1  to see if the issue has
already been addressed.

-- 
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-17 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-17 18:40 system hangs with no warning or errors Charles Leggett
2005-06-17 18:48 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2005-06-17 21:32   ` Charles Leggett
2005-06-17 18:56 ` Raphael Jacquot

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