Re: 2.6.30.1-4 kernels freezes dual pentium-3 system

["John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Rogge <marogge@onlinehome.de> writes:

Martin> On Monday 03 August 2009 18:25:27 Martin Rogge wrote:
>> Osipov Stanislav wrote:
>> > I  have  a  dual  Pentium-3 system. It based on Asus CUR-DLS mainboard
>> > with  2  Pentium-3EB  1000MHz (133 MHz FSB) installed.
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > But  under 2.6.30.x kernels box freezes without any alerts. TTL before
>> > freezing  is  about 5-30 mins.
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> > Osipov Stanislav
>> > Linux System Administrator.
>> 
>> I also observe system lockups after upgrading to 2.6.30.[34]. The mainboard
>> is an MSI-9105 with dual P-3 1400Mhz. TTL is a number of hours (which is
>> going to make bisecting hard). Since all lockups have occured with a
>> tainted kernel (nvidia) I am currently running a test with an untainted
>> kernel. Should a lockup re-occur I will post details.
>> 
>> Martin

Martin> OK, I have observed the lockup now on a vanilla 2.6.30.4
Martin> kernel, unpatched & untainted. So it is now official: 2.6.30
Martin> can lock up on dual-P3s.:-(

I'm not surprised.  I've been running 2.6.31-rc5 on my Dual PIII and
it's locked up three times now.  I expect it to lockup before I get
home today too.  

I guess I really need to start the long term bisection parade and see
where the changes between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 really are which causes
this problem.

John