Re: 2.4.22-rc2-ac3 blew up

From: Justin Cormack
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 06:07:05 EST


On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 03:52, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
> This morning I put 2.4.22-rc2-ac3 on a mail server. About 5 mins ago
> the box blew up and we got this in a remote syslog:
>
> Aug 23 22:04:08 mailserver1 kernel: Do you have a strange power sav ing mode enabled?
> Aug 23 22:04:08 mailserver1 kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21.
> Aug 23 22:04:08 mailserver1 kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>
> ACPI and AMP are NOT enabled. I can attach the .config tomorrow if
> someone wants it once the box is back up. It's a 4way P3-550 with
> 16Gigs of RAM. Himem and 64Gig were the compiled options as well as it
> was compiled for P3. Due to the way it locked up there wasn't anything
> else we could get debug wise. This is a production box so we had to
> roll it back to the previous kernel and no-real debugging options are
> available. We do have a machine which is identicle except it is 4Gigs
> of ram and instead of a raid0 of 4 disks totalling 200Gigs of space the
> other machine has a single disk of 400GB.

Have you got ECC errors set to NMI?

Justin


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