Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7"

From: Luca Montecchiani (luca.montecchiani@teamfab.it)
Date: Thu Nov 29 2001 - 05:14:27 EST


On my "old" system this message appear randomly after the boot process
when my machine always try to make a ISDN connection with my provider.
Sometimes appears in the kernel boot process... funny.

IOAPIC : not set
kernel : 2.4.x
CPU : K6-2 450
Chipset:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1541 (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5243 (rev 04)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev b4)
00:08.0 Network controller: Elsa AG QuickStep 1000 (rev 01)
00:09.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 04)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Trident Microsystems 4DWave DX (rev 02)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev 20)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G100 [Productiva] AGP (rev 02)

grep -A1 -B1 spurious /var/log/messages :

May 12 10:04:05 localhost ipppd[529]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.54
May 12 10:04:44 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
May 12 10:04:44 localhost ipppd[529]: Modem hangup

--
May 23 21:10:33 localhost ipppd[529]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.54
May 23 21:28:29 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
May 23 21:49:49 localhost -- MARK --
--
May 30 20:15:57 localhost -- MARK --
May 30 20:16:31 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
May 30 20:35:57 localhost -- MARK --
--
Jun  9 15:16:37 localhost ipppd[529]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.54
Jun  9 15:16:42 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jun  9 15:17:28 localhost ipppd[529]: Modem hangup
--
Jun 25 19:01:16 localhost ipppd[529]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.54
Jun 25 19:01:20 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jun 25 19:02:06 localhost ipppd[529]: Modem hangup
--
Jun 28 05:33:12 localhost ipppd[529]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.59
Jun 28 05:36:02 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jun 28 05:36:30 localhost ipppd[529]: Modem hangup
--
Jul  3 21:33:19 localhost ipppd[529]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.54
Jul  3 21:33:30 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul  3 21:39:04 localhost ipppd[529]: Modem hangup
--
Jul  5 07:31:04 localhost ipppd[529]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.54
Jul  5 07:32:22 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul  5 07:38:02 localhost ipppd[529]: Modem hangup
--
Jul  9 23:18:48 localhost Wmaker: Hi luca, welcome to localhost
Jul  9 23:24:02 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul  9 23:38:25 localhost -- MARK --
--
Jul 12 22:11:20 localhost -- MARK --
Jul 12 22:22:53 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul 12 22:51:20 localhost -- MARK --
--
Jul 15 22:21:34 localhost ipppd[529]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.54
Jul 15 22:21:39 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul 15 22:22:07 localhost ipppd[529]: Modem hangup
--
Jul 16 21:26:53 localhost ipppd[530]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.54
Jul 16 21:26:58 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul 16 21:30:24 localhost ipppd[530]: Modem hangup
--
Jul 17 20:11:57 localhost ipppd[530]: Connect[0]: /dev/ippp0, fd: 7
Jul 17 20:13:45 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul 17 20:13:53 localhost Wmaker: Hi luca, welcome to luca.home.net
--
Jul 23 20:08:51 localhost kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jul 23 20:14:38 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul 23 20:25:42 localhost -- MARK --
--
Jul 25 19:21:29 localhost ipppd[530]: remote IP address XXX.YYY.XXX.59
Jul 25 19:22:03 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul 25 19:22:03 localhost ipppd[530]: Modem hangup
--
Jul 26 07:55:53 localhost -- MARK --
Jul 26 07:57:43 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jul 26 08:09:42 localhost init: Switching to runlevel: 6
--
Aug 14 17:41:53 localhost kernel: HiSax: Approved with Eicon Technology Diva 2.01 PCI cards
Aug 14 17:41:53 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Aug 14 17:41:53 localhost kernel: HiSax: Approved with Sedlbauer Speedfax + cards
--
Aug 22 08:49:40 localhost kernel: Adding Swap: 264592k swap-space (priority -1)
Aug 22 08:49:40 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Aug 22 08:49:41 localhost cron[439]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork
ok)                                                                                           
--                                                                                                                                                      
Nov 10 10:28:15 localhost lircd-0.6.4[576]: caught
signal                                                                                               
Nov 10 10:31:08 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt:
IRQ7.                                                                                       
Nov 10 10:42:00 localhost CRON[743]: (root) CMD ([ -x /usr/sbin/cronloop ] && /usr/sbin/cronloop Hourly)
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