From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262023AbVFQRR1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:17:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262024AbVFQRR1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:17:27 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.204]:3377 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262023AbVFQRRW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:17:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=s+NikKPPlfSdhqU4iZjYkaunKJEUN1nR4agkPdYxxW1MMwR+KHUBkRZIZhcpnXSHqbiX7DWfW3hFfGtmJrXn0M+pOKp2mptpU3cn0fWqQ5SGUozXKY4gCWf6SGuDWObYvJg0OHp47WU+9zDb6WbkOzFSwqGHQUUFHB2vXyHRFIg= Message-ID: <9a874849050617101712b80b15@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:17:19 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Reply-To: Jesper Juhl To: Alexander Fieroch Subject: Re: [2.6.12rc4] PROBLEM: "drive appears confused" and "irq 18: nobody cared!" Cc: Alan Cox , bzolnier@gmail.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , axboe@suse.de, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz In-Reply-To: <42B302C2.9030009@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050527171613.5f949683.akpm@osdl.org> <429A2397.6090609@web.de> <58cb370e05061401041a67cfa7@mail.gmail.com> <42B091EE.4020802@web.de> <20050615143039.24132251.akpm@osdl.org> <1118960606.24646.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42B2AACC.7070908@web.de> <1119011887.24646.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42B302C2.9030009@web.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/17/05, Alexander Fieroch wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >>Jun 17 12:07:49 orclex kernel: hdb: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) > >>Jun 17 12:07:49 orclex kernel: irq 18: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option. > > > > Something failed to clear IRQ 18, that typically means there are IRQ > > routing problems rather than IDE ones and would explain your traces. > > > > Try booting with acpi=off and see what trace you get then. > > acpi=off makes linux hang and not continuing booting. Hm, syslog does > not contain the trace until that crash but the last lines before the > hanging are: > > ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 > hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found > > > I've tried booting the kernel with parameter irqpoll as you have > suggested but it leads to a kernel panic. > The last line was: > > kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! > > It's not saved in syslog too, so is there any way to get the trace to a > file? > serial console & netconsole - see Documentation/serial-console.txt and Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt And there's also the kernel "console on line printer" option if you want the messages printed on a printer instead. You also have the option of writing the text down by hand with pen & paper (using a fb console with lots of lines help keep many messages visible for this) - some people also use a digital camera to take a photo of the screen. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html