2.6.10-rc2 and x86_64; spontaneous reboots

2.6.10-rc2 and x86_64; spontaneous reboots

[David Ford]

Is anyone else experiencing spontaneous reboots within a few minutes of 
bootup?  (If the system survives past the first 10 minutes, it stays up 
for a long time, but it reliably does an instant reboot with no panic or 
other indication a good 9 out of 10 times.  The system is purely idle, 
nothing going on.  memtest86+ runs for hours with no failures.

David

Re: 2.6.10-rc2 and x86_64; spontaneous reboots

[surya]

what is the hardware

On Wed Nov 24 11:40 , David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org> sent:

>Is anyone else experiencing spontaneous reboots within a few minutes of 
>bootup?  (If the system survives past the first 10 minutes, it stays up 
>for a long time, but it reliably does an instant reboot with no panic or 
>other indication a good 9 out of 10 times.  The system is purely idle, 
>nothing going on.  memtest86+ runs for hours with no failures.
>
>David
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Re: 2.6.10-rc2 and x86_64; spontaneous reboots

[Michal Schmidt]

David Ford wrote:
> Is anyone else experiencing spontaneous reboots within a few minutes of 
> bootup?  (If the system survives past the first 10 minutes, it stays up 
> for a long time, but it reliably does an instant reboot with no panic or 
> other indication a good 9 out of 10 times.  The system is purely idle, 
> nothing going on.  memtest86+ runs for hours with no failures.

Do the restarts occur exactly 5 minutes after bootup? That would 
indicate a problem with jiffies overflow. Probably some buggy driver.

Michal

Re: 2.6.10-rc2 and x86_64; spontaneous reboots

[David Ford]

Oddly, yes.  Or almost yes since I haven't measured it exactly.  The 
typical reboot is right around five minutes of uptime.  The three times 
that I did watch /proc/uptime, right around the 2nd column going to 300 
seconds is when it rebooted.

-david

Michal Schmidt wrote:

> David Ford wrote:
>
>> Is anyone else experiencing spontaneous reboots within a few minutes 
>> of bootup?  (If the system survives past the first 10 minutes, it 
>> stays up for a long time, but it reliably does an instant reboot with 
>> no panic or other indication a good 9 out of 10 times.  The system is 
>> purely idle, nothing going on.  memtest86+ runs for hours with no 
>> failures.
>
>
> Do the restarts occur exactly 5 minutes after bootup? That would 
> indicate a problem with jiffies overflow. Probably some buggy driver.
>
> Michal
>

Re: 2.6.10-rc2 and x86_64; spontaneous reboots

[Michal Schmidt]

David Ford wrote:
> Oddly, yes.  Or almost yes since I haven't measured it exactly.  The 
> typical reboot is right around five minutes of uptime.  The three times 
> that I did watch /proc/uptime, right around the 2nd column going to 300 
> seconds is when it rebooted.

Well, could you send here your .config ? Do you have some strange hardware?

Michal

PS: Please don't top-post. And the challenge-response mail filter is 
pretty annoying.

Re: 2.6.10-rc2 and x86_64; spontaneous reboots

[David Ford]

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Michal Schmidt wrote:

> David Ford wrote:
>
>> Oddly, yes.  Or almost yes since I haven't measured it exactly.  The 
>> typical reboot is right around five minutes of uptime.  The three 
>> times that I did watch /proc/uptime, right around the 2nd column 
>> going to 300 seconds is when it rebooted.
>
>
> Well, could you send here your .config ? Do you have some strange 
> hardware?
>
> Michal
>
> PS: Please don't top-post. And the challenge-response mail filter is 
> pretty annoying.
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Re: 2.6.10-rc2 and x86_64; spontaneous reboots

[Michal Schmidt]

[David Ford sent me some file slightly resembling .config]

Hello David,

Could you first try to completely disable CONFIG_I2C and see if the 
kernel then survives the 5 minutes?

Michal