From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Giuliano Pochini Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: <20030827220627.1e437823.pochini@shiny.it> References: <20030824092456.3c36fa5b.pochini@shiny.it> <1061714789.753.12.camel@gaston> <20030824174408.520f2cb3.pochini@shiny.it> <1061740217.31688.33.camel@gaston> <20030827220627.1e437823.pochini@shiny.it> Message-Id: <1062059514.1293.112.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:31:55 +0200 Subject: Re: Random crashes Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 22:06, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:50:17 +0200 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Random... lockups, oopses, sig11... but nothing useful because is happens > > > in random places. Ok, so the answer is no. Maybe the hw is faulty. It's > > > the only kernel I used on this mac. > > > > Strange. I haven't been reported such problems. Can you try an older kernel > > just in case ? Could also be bad ram... > > I tried 2.4.22 and I replaced the RAM. Nothing. Digging in the oops > collection I found this one which doesn't look very nice: > > Jul 23 21:37:55 localhost kernel: Machine check in kernel mode. > Jul 23 21:37:55 localhost kernel: Caused by (from SRR1=20009030): L1 Data Cache error > > I'll send the machine back for repair, altought I think they'll not even > notice the problem because it happens sporadically :((( Well... I'm not 100% sure the message is correct, though from what you say, it seems indeed there is a CPU fault... What CPU is this exactly ? (/proc/cpuinfo) Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/