From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 19:31:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 19:31:08 -0400 Received: from gecius-0.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.67.146]:47299 "EHLO maniac.gecius.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 19:30:49 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.4 kernel freeze In-Reply-To: <3B0BFD7F.B32695C8@bluewin.ch> From: Jens Gecius Date: 23 May 2001 19:30:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3B0BFD7F.B32695C8@bluewin.ch> (Stephan Brauss's message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 20:12:15 +0200") Message-ID: <8766erwsm0.fsf@maniac.gecius.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephan Brauss writes: > > what do you mean by freeze? in theory, the fact that the irq > I cannot ping the machine anymore, no Ooops, no kernel messages, the > attached screen is freezed (which implies that no more interrupts > are handled, right?) Excuse me hopping in. I have that situation here, too. Screen frozen, no pings from the local network, sysrq doesn't work (keyboard dead). BUT: the other interface (internet) works just fine. When I look in the logs afterwards, I find everything worked fine except the following: maniac kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out maniac kernel: eth1: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=21. Basically, the nic for my local lan is gone. And due to the fact, that the box is unsuable for me (don't have another internet connection to log in *that* remote), I have to reboot hard. Thank god there's reiserfs ;-). All this happened on 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 (don't excactly remember on earlier 2.4). I followed your suggestion regarding PCI-slots. Both my nics used to use PCI 4 and 5 (on a gigabyte vxd7, dual 1GHz). Only the one in slot 4 had the problems. I switched the card to slot 1 and will monitor the situation. I'll mail the list in case it doesn't change my situation. Any other hints are welcome (other than the noapic, which didn't help). -- Tschoe, Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt