Re: Weird lockups

From: Matthew R. Pavlovich (mpav@purdue.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 22:01:49 EST


> Just a "me too". I have had hard lockups with the following system:
>
> 164LX2 533MHz

Another 21164 system. This is different from the PC164's. Anyone know
what the difference is? Which sub-arch would the LX2 use?

> 4GB Seagate IDE drive
> 8MB ELSA Gloria Synergy video card.
> DEC Tulip NIC (Kingston KNE100TX)
> Debian 2.2

Have you updated recently? The autobuilder is back and a good number of
packages have been updated.

> more often when running X. I have tried swapping all removable parts of

I think we are seeing a lot of this... Here's what I've summarized:

BUG-- HARD system locks with Alpha processors.

Description- Unrecoverable (SysReq fails) system lockups at various,
unpredictable, unrepeatable times. Users have estimated error could be
with-

        3 PC164's 1 LX2
         IDE controller support for alphas.
        CMD646 IDE controller specifically
        X - 2 ppl w/ G200 PCI's 1 w/ ELSA Gloria Synergy
        2 w/ 3Com 905b's
        2 w/ NCR 53C875 SCSI Controllers

Diagnostics performed- All users have tried different hardware
configurations, including replacing all IDE hardware w/ SCSI.

Notes- Some report problems with module loading, or modular kernels.

Kernel versions- Various 2.2.x.. including 2.2.13 and 2.2.14.

 Matthew R. Pavlovich



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