[BUG]: Hard lockups continue with linux-2.6.15-rc1-rc7

[BUG]: Hard lockups continue with linux-2.6.15-rc1-rc7

[Tarkan Erimer]

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Hi all,

I'm having hard lockups with all the RCs of linux-2.6.15. I,
previously, mentioned this with the subject "[BUG]: Software compiling
occasionlly hangs under 2.6.15-rc1/rc2 and 2.6.15-rc1-mm2" in the
list. I investigated a bit at found these interesting things.

-- Always reproducable. To reproduce:
    - in console 1, issueing "updatedb"
    - in console 2, issueing "find / -name "blahblah" -print
    - in console 3, issueing "emerge -uDp world" (BTW, I'm using Gentoo.)
    - in console 4, X started.
    - a few minutes later, system completely freezes. No Alt+SysRq+t
works. (Normally, it does)

When the system freezes, there is nothing in logs. But hardly, I
captured an  Alt+SysRq+t. A few seconds (15-20 seconds) before hang. I
attached this  Alt+SysRq+t and lsmod output. Hope this helps to solve
this.

PS: These problems never occured in 2.6.14.xx and downwards.

Regards.

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rfcomm                 36372  0 
l2cap                  24448  5 rfcomm
snd_pcm_oss            47776  0 
snd_mixer_oss          17408  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           4100  0 
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snd_seq_midi_event      7296  1 snd_seq_oss
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snd_seq_device          8972  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_intel8x0m          16908  1 
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soundcore               9696  1 snd
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nls_utf8                2432  1 
ntfs                  192016  1 
ieee80211_crypt_tkip    10240  0 
ieee80211_crypt_ccmp     6912  0 
ieee80211_crypt_wep     4992  1 
ipw2100               129636  0 
ieee80211              41192  1 ipw2100
ieee80211_crypt         6276  4 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211_crypt_ccmp,ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
firmware_class         10624  2 pcmcia,ipw2100
e100                   37124  0 
mii                     5760  1 e100
bluetooth              45156  4 rfcomm,l2cap
uhci_hcd               31120  0 
ehci_hcd               30984  0 
ohci_hcd               19844  0 
usb_storage            67392  0 
usbcore               119044  5 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd,usb_storage
scsi_mod               93992  1 usb_storage
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agpgart                32984  0 


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Re: [BUG]: Hard lockups continue with linux-2.6.15-rc1-rc7

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Tarkan,

On 12/26/05, Tarkan Erimer <tarkane@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having hard lockups with all the RCs of linux-2.6.15. I,
> previously, mentioned this with the subject "[BUG]: Software compiling
> occasionlly hangs under 2.6.15-rc1/rc2 and 2.6.15-rc1-mm2" in the
> list. I investigated a bit at found these interesting things.
>
> -- Always reproducable. To reproduce:
>     - in console 1, issueing "updatedb"
>     - in console 2, issueing "find / -name "blahblah" -print
>     - in console 3, issueing "emerge -uDp world" (BTW, I'm using Gentoo.)
>     - in console 4, X started.
>     - a few minutes later, system completely freezes. No Alt+SysRq+t
> works. (Normally, it does)
>
> When the system freezes, there is nothing in logs. But hardly, I
> captured an  Alt+SysRq+t. A few seconds (15-20 seconds) before hang. I
> attached this  Alt+SysRq+t and lsmod output. Hope this helps to solve
> this.

You can use git bisect to narrow down the changeset that introduced
the bug. Please refer to the following URL for details:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bisect.txt

                        Pekka

RE: [BUG]: Hard lockups continue with linux-2.6.15-rc1-rc7

[Sid Boyce]

Tarkan Erimer wrote:
 > Hi all,
 >
 > I'm having hard lockups with all the RCs of linux-2.6.15. I,
 > previously, mentioned this with the subject "[BUG]: Software compiling
 > occasionlly hangs under 2.6.15-rc1/rc2 and 2.6.15-rc1-mm2" in the
 > list. I investigated a bit at found these interesting things.
 >
 > -- Always reproducable. To reproduce:
 > - in console 1, issueing "updatedb"
 > - in console 2, issueing "find / -name "blahblah" -print
 > - in console 3, issueing "emerge -uDp world" (BTW, I'm using Gentoo.)
 > - in console 4, X started.
 > - a few minutes later, system completely freezes. No Alt+SysRq+t
 > works. (Normally, it does)
 >
 > When the system freezes, there is nothing in logs. But hardly, I
 > captured an Alt+SysRq+t. A few seconds (15-20 seconds) before hang. I
 > attached this Alt+SysRq+t and lsmod output. Hope this helps to solve
 > this.
 >
 > PS: These problems never occured in 2.6.14.xx and downwards.
 >
 > Regards.

Don't rule out hardware. This SuSE 10.0 x86 box worked without problems 
on kernels up to 2.6.15-rc6-git2, but I experienced strange apparent 
filesystem corruptions/compile failures running normally and hard 
lockups when running mythtv with 2.6.15-rc6-git6 and 2.6.15-rc7, while 
on the Mandriva 2006 x86 box and the SuSE x86_64 there were no problems. 
Until I found the suspect SDRAM, on some occasions I had to run 
reiserfsck before 2.6.15-rc6-git2 would boot again correctly after 
trying rc6-git6 or -rc7. Finally I got a corruption again with 
2.6.15-rc7, replaced the SDRAM stick with the one taken out previously, 
booted up on 2.6.15-rc7 with no problems. I had run memtest some days 
earlier, but only for a couple of hours. (current uptime 1 day 1.04hrs).
Regards
Sid.
-- 
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [BUG]: Hard lockups continue with linux-2.6.15-rc1-rc7

[Tarkan Erimer]

Hi Sid,

On 12/26/05, Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Don't rule out hardware. This SuSE 10.0 x86 box worked without problems
> on kernels up to 2.6.15-rc6-git2, but I experienced strange apparent
> filesystem corruptions/compile failures running normally and hard
> lockups when running mythtv with 2.6.15-rc6-git6 and 2.6.15-rc7, while
> on the Mandriva 2006 x86 box and the SuSE x86_64 there were no problems.
> Until I found the suspect SDRAM, on some occasions I had to run
> reiserfsck before 2.6.15-rc6-git2 would boot again correctly after
> trying rc6-git6 or -rc7. Finally I got a corruption again with
> 2.6.15-rc7, replaced the SDRAM stick with the one taken out previously,
> booted up on 2.6.15-rc7 with no problems. I had run memtest some days
> earlier, but only for a couple of hours. (current uptime 1 day 1.04hrs).

Hmmm.. It looks, it is time to run memtest on my box. Thanks for the tip.

Regards,

Re: [BUG]: Hard lockups continue with linux-2.6.15-rc1-rc7

[Sid Boyce]

Tarkan Erimer wrote:
> Hi Sid,
> 
> On 12/26/05, Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Don't rule out hardware. This SuSE 10.0 x86 box worked without problems
>> on kernels up to 2.6.15-rc6-git2, but I experienced strange apparent
>> filesystem corruptions/compile failures running normally and hard
>> lockups when running mythtv with 2.6.15-rc6-git6 and 2.6.15-rc7, while
>> on the Mandriva 2006 x86 box and the SuSE x86_64 there were no problems.
>> Until I found the suspect SDRAM, on some occasions I had to run
>> reiserfsck before 2.6.15-rc6-git2 would boot again correctly after
>> trying rc6-git6 or -rc7. Finally I got a corruption again with
>> 2.6.15-rc7, replaced the SDRAM stick with the one taken out previously,
>> booted up on 2.6.15-rc7 with no problems. I had run memtest some days
>> earlier, but only for a couple of hours. (current uptime 1 day 1.04hrs).
> 
> Hmmm.. It looks, it is time to run memtest on my box. Thanks for the tip.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
It's strongly recommended. I've now found that both SDRAMS with the same 
batch number are experiencing the same error with memtest, that's after 
I had a lockup with the one I thought was good. They will be replaced 
under lifetime warranty by Kingston memory. I've temporarily stuck a 
PC2700 512M stick in and it's been solid under memtest and with a full 
workload.
Regards
Sid.
-- 
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks