Re: Kernel hangs approximitly every 3 days, some times during boot on version 2.4 and 2.6

From: George Anzinger
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 21:05:52 EST


Tyler Riddle wrote:
Hello,

You can find a detailed bug report folowing the
template specified in REPORTING-BUGS at
http://foodmotron.homeunix.org/~tyler/bug-report.txt

In short, the kernel will hard lock on my machine
about every 3 days. I have tried several of the latest
versions of the 2.4 and 2.6 series kernels, 2.2 has
not shown this problem. I have tried to remedy this
problem by removing APIC support, IDE DMA and explicit
support for my IDE chipset
(VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235), none of
which has helped any. On every lockup the IDE disk
access light has been steady and usualy a steady tone
is left playing out of my sound card.

I am going to take a stab in the dark here and question if it is the sound card or the cpu (i.e. in the box, speaker, etc.) that the sound is comming from. If so, it could be that your cpus internal monitor has detected an alarm condition, such as voltage out of range, or, and most likely, over temp. You might want to get your "sensors" set up so you can check from time to time. Might even want to put together a script that writes to the system log when ever a sensor is in alarm condition.

And yes, linux stresses the box more than windoz, so it will over temp while windoz does not.

-g

I'm hoping someone here can help me figure out what is
going on. This exact same hardware in the exact same
configuration ran Windows 2000 for over a year with
out issue. To verify the problem was localized to the
linux kernel I also ran FreeBSD 5.2.1 for 3 weeks
after the lockup problem existed under linux.

Thanks for your help,

Tyler Riddle

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