On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:10:47PM -0600, Jesse Sweetland wrote: > Hi, > > I've been wrestling with this problem since 8.0 was released and I haven't > found a solution yet in any of the other forums (there is an extensive > thread on the subject at LinuxISO.org/RedHat forum). 4 or 5 hours after > logging into the box the system freezes up completely with the following > symptoms: > > - no video updates > - mouse does not function > - keyboard does not function > - network traffic stop > - cannot SSH into the box > - cannot ping the box > > At first I did not experience these problems with SuSE 8.0. By default SuSE > 8.0 puts the kernel in a /boot/ partition formatted as ext2. I re-installed > SuSE I put everything on reiserFS (forgetting that /boot/ should be on ext2) > and I began to experience the same kind of freezes. So I re-installed SuSE > again with everything on ext2 and everything worked. Thinking I had found > the problem I re-installed RedHat 8.0 and put everything on ext2 and the > freezes starting happening more frequently before (on the order of a couple > of minutes rather than a couple of hours). > > One thing worth mentioning--one time right before a SuSE lock up I saw in > the xconsole window a message about kernel: /dev/hdb: lost interrupt or > something along those lines. I checked the /proc/irq and everything seems to > be in order. I had thought the problem was running the kernel from a > journaling filesystem, but this apparently is not the case, since I have > reproduced the problem on an ext2 installation. I ran SuSE's memory > test...17 hours and no failures. I reformatted my drive with ext2 and did > bad block checking...no bad blocks. The computer is new and the RAM > > My computer is a Gateway 500S that's about 6 months old. It has an Intel > 845PT chipset with the CPU/LAN configuration with integrated ADI 1885 audio > chip (currently disabled) and Intel 8256ET NIC. I have an after-market ATI > Radeo 64MB DDR (retail box) video card and an after-market OEM SoundBlaster > Audigy MP3+. The drive I am trying to install on is a 80GB Maxtor 7200 RPM. > I've tried partitioning in several different configurations but nothing > seems to help. Right now I'm running SuSE with the kernel on /boot/ (ext2) > and / on ReiserFS and it's working fine. > > In the LinuxISO.org forum I found 2 or 3 other people with the same problem. > Has anyone else seen anything like this? Any suggestions for further > troubleshooting? I had exactly the same thing happen to me. The box was locking during overnight backups. Turned out one of the hard drives was kacking with improper DMA settings. I replaced the drive and everything started working. Try to determine if the box is locking on hard drive access. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@shaw.ca -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
