From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "M. Ghaeini" Subject: RedHat 7.3 crashed with APIC error message Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:19:22 -0600 Sender: linux-smp-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F847F5A.9090906@cerberian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org Hello, I am running RedHat 7.3 with the kernel version 2.4.18-19.7.xbigmem on IBM-x360 server. This server crashed with the following messages: mp-bios bug: 8254 time not connected to io-apic Kernel panic io-apic + timer doesn't work pester mingo@redhat.com I also found these messages in syslog: Oct 6 22:53:25 db1-1 kernel: WARNING: MP table in the EBDA can be UNSAFE, contact linux-smp@vger.kernel.org if you experience SMP problems! Oct 6 22:53:31 db1-1 kernel: testing the IO APIC....................... Oct 6 22:53:31 db1-1 kernel: Oct 6 22:53:31 db1-1 kernel: WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail Oct 6 22:53:31 db1-1 kernel: to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org Oct 6 22:53:31 db1-1 kernel: .................................... done. Please advice. Thank you. -Ghaeini