Re: Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Dec 25 2004 - 22:38:24 EST




On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> Alas, It sort-of boots but is terminally slow. I see the log with
> endless repetitions of "irq 18 nobody cared" and some trace, then
> "disabling irq 18." Unfortunately it lies, after about 20MB of this I
> decided it had no real intention of disabling irq 18 and tried to stop
> it. After ten minutes I had to pull the plug and it's still cleaning
> filesystems.

Can you send a (normal) dmesg output for this machine, and describe what
is normally on irq18?

It _sounds_ like it's a confusion between level and edge, with the usual
suspects. Does it go away if you disable acpi?

Linus
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