From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262282AbTIUC4l (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:56:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262285AbTIUC4l (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:56:41 -0400 Received: from mail.g-housing.de ([62.75.136.201]:63206 "EHLO mail.g-house.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262282AbTIUC4i (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:56:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3F6D134E.2080505@g-house.de> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 04:56:14 +0200 From: evil User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: lockups with 2.4.2x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi y'all, i am in the need of some help tracing down mysterious lock-ups of my machine. with any vanilla kernel above 2.4.19 the machine boots, the it will take 1 to 3 minutes and the machine freezes. no Oops on the console, no warnings (e.g. no high load or mem-pressure), even SysReq is not working. i've already setup a script, writing /proc/modules|locks|ksyms to the disk every 2 seconds, because i suspected some 3rd party module i usually load to be the reason for the freezes. but it was not. please tell me, if other files are more interesting for this or what else i can do to get to the source to the problem. the machine: Dual Athlon, 1GB RAM (HighMem enabled), gcc 3.3.1, libc 2.3.2, (Debian/Testing) some more infos are on: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/freeze/config|cpuinfo|dmesg|lspci (directory listing follows...) I really appreciate some help here, i don't know where to start searching since no errors are shown :-( below are some further infos, but i don't know if they are related to this issue. Thank you for your time, Christian. before this whole mess i was using 2.4.19, but i wanted to upgrade to 2.4.20, 2.4.21, did not make it, due to lack of time or need. 2.4.19 was running fine. but i need netfilter now, so i had to recompile modules+kernel! but, mysteriously, i fail to recompile my 2.4.19. i did "make mrproper", then even untar'ed a new archive, took the old config, "make oldconfig" went ok. then "make dep bzImage modules modules_install" stops within "bzImage": net/network.o(.text+0xf125): In function `rtnetlink_rcv': : undefined reference to `rtnetlink_rcv_skb' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 there was another issue with a vanilla 2.4.19, but i tried to fix it: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/freeze/semaphore.c.patch hm, is this gcc related? it did not like some missing "" terminations. ok, after fixing this, the error above showed up. so, i thought it was time to try 2.4.2x (now 2.4.22), but am somehow stuck now. on some completely other machines (PPC32 + single AMD/Athlon), 2.4.2x are running very fine.