From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261572AbUKOLzH (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:55:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261571AbUKOLzH (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:55:07 -0500 Received: from isma.kharkov.ua ([217.144.73.247]:19910 "EHLO www.isma.kharkov.ua") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261572AbUKOLyv (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:54:51 -0500 Message-ID: <41989904.7090209@isma.kharkov.ua> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:54:44 +0200 From: zergio Organization: =?UTF-8?B?0JjQodCc0JA=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.4) Gecko/20040926 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.27 suddenly hangs References: <419886CE.2030304@isma.kharkov.ua> <41988EEC.3040708@corscience.de> In-Reply-To: <41988EEC.3040708@corscience.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Simon Braunschmidt wrote: > I have a similar problem at the moment, i have setup my box with > gentoo and now i get hardlocks from time to time (time < 1.5 days), > happens with and without x, kernel 2.4.27 untainted, with apic on and > off, acpi on and off, apm on and off... > > @zergio: Can you tell me if it only happened with 2.4.27? No, it had happened with 2.4.20 kernel. > > The system is really stuck when it crashes. My wireless keyboard has a > led to indicate traffic, an when system hangs, not even the led would > blink, it just stays in either on or off state (its normaly off). No > disk activity, mouse is locked, display remains unchanged (x.org nv or > plain (non-fbdev) console). Havent tried so far to reach the box over > network, but is suspect it will not work. > > @developers: > Maybe thats a hint, could it be that a broken keyboard induces such > behaviour? > > Im going to change kernel to 2.4.24 (had uptimes > 14 days with it) > and see if it helps. > > As far as i can see, nothing was written to the logs, no messages, it > just peacefully dies... In my case it has happened with and without keyboard and with keyboard connected to D-Link KVM Switch > > zergio schrieb: > >> Hello, all! >> I‘m not sure that the below problem is kernel related, however, I >> think, this mailing list is the best place to start. I've got 2x1.8 >> Xeon on Intel SE7500CW2 motherboard with Intel SCSI RAID (GDT >> driver). The system powered by Red Hat Linux 7.3 with custom kernel >> version 2.4.27. >> Occasionally, the system just hangs, without giving any error messages > > how long is occasionaly? There is no strict period of time. Some time server up for couple of month. Recently the issue occured twice within 7 days. It've happened 7 time during last half a year or so. >> to syslog or any panic-like messages to the screen. No response to >> ping. Usually it happens on weekends in early hours, but not at >> particular time and day, when users’ activity is minimal. Couple of >> times the last few messages before, the hang had strange timestamps. >> It seems like the system time entered a TIME LOOP within a period of >> 1 second. >> Nov 6 05:37:31 service dhcpd: Message... >> Nov 6 05:37:32 service named: Message... >> Nov 6 05:37:31 service named: Message... >> Almost all the time last messages came from different services, >> except three times, when mgetty was the last. I'd updated mgetty, >> pppd, kernel (from 2.4.20), BIOS, dhcpd etc., however, the problem >> remains. >> Can anyone tell me, how I can detect, what application or hardware >> cause such a problem. >> Any ideas would be appreciated. >> Thank you in advance >> >> These are services being run on the server: >> gpm >> named >> iptables >> crond >> ldap >> smb >> xinetd (swat amanda) >> autofs >> nfs >> qmail >> sqwebmail >> dhcpd >> ups >> sshd >> firebird >> ntpd >> httpd >> arpwatch >> drwebd >> mgetty >> pppd >> postgresql >> >> >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >> linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > >