On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:24 AM Kamil Paral <kparal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:06 PM Brandon Nielsen <nielsenb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Recently I've had cause to run memtest on some relatively modern systems >> (Haswell, Haswell refresh, and Kaby Lake R). On all three systems the >> memtest86+ provided with the Fedora Workstation Live media failed. >> >> On the Haswell and Haswell refresh machines it froze shortly after >> starting. It didn't matter if the test was run in 'Safe Mode', or with SMP. > > > I can confirm the issues. I have Haswell (i5 4570): > * With F32 Workstation Beta, memtest freezes at 35% (of the first test) reliably if I keep the defaults (which defaults to SMP:disabled) or force safe mode with F1. When I force SMP using F2, it reboots quickly. > * With F31 Workstation, memtest reboots at 35% (of the first test) reliably if I keep the defaults (SMP: disabled) or force safe mode. When I force SMP, it reboots quickly. > * With F30 Workstation, memtest seems to work fine (I waited only a few minutes) in all configurations. > > With a libvirt VM, memtest seems to work fine (I waited only a few minutes) with safe mode with F30-F32, but reboots immediately in default configuration or SMP (F30-F32). > > I used to have problems with memtest when I forced SMP in the past, but never with the default or safe mode configuration. Something changed recently (F31) for the worse. Interestingly, memtest always reports the same version (5.01) so I wonder what affects this. > gcc version? -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
