From: Yan Seiner <yan@seiner.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Processes dying with ENXIO or EINTR - disk related?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:41:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49922CC2.8020705@seiner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <499229DF.50708@kernel.org>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
>
>> Recently I've started getting system freezeups and weird segfaults with
>> EINTR (Interrupted system call) and ENXIO (No such device or address).
>>
>> These errors can be in ld, libc, and so on. I'm stumped; the system has
>> worked fine for quite a while and just recently has developed this
>> behavior. I can start yanking out hardware, but before I do that I wonder
>> if it is something to do with disk access. I'm a bit stumped as to what
>> else could cause ENXIO on loading an app.... Needless to say there aren't
>> any errors at all anywhere that I can find, so I am guessing.
>>
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 1:41 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 [this message]
2009-02-11 2:13 ` Tejun Heo
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