We're crashing too - 2.0.33 w/ 2.0.34pre2 patches

Donald Ball (balld@webslingerZ.com)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 16:47:40 -0500 (EST)


I'd like to add my voice to the half a dozen or so people reporting
strange system crashes with 2.0.33. Our system has died three times in the
past week since "upgrading" to Redhat 5.0 and kernel 2.0.33. Two times it
has died giving me the Black Screen of Death, nothing in the logs or on
the console, no weird processes were running at the time of the crash. The
other time it did reboot, but still nothing in the logs on or the console.
After the first crash, I applied Alan Cox's 2.0.34pre2 patch and
recompiled the kernel, but it hasn't seemed to help any. I was initially
suspecting something in cron was causing the crashes since the first two
occured at 10:40AM on Monday (either that or my server simply doesn't like
Monday mornings, which I can totally sympathize with...) but the only
weekly cron job I have is the makewhatis script, which runs fine.

Okay, so here's the specs on the system in case anyone can help diagnose
this problem:

Hardware
--------
Dell PowerEdge 2200 (single Pentium II)
256M EDO ECC memory
on-board aic7xxx SCSI
DPT 2144UW SCSI RAID controller (using the EATA_DMA drivers)
3Com 3c905 PCI ethernet card
128M swap partition on the aic7xxx controller

Software
--------
Redhat 5.0
Kernel 2.0.33 w/ 2.0.34pre2 patches (compiled for 586)
glibc 2.0.7 (rpm glibc-2.0.7-4)
ld.so 1.9.5 (rpm ld.so-1.9.5-5)
gcc 2.7.2.3 (rpm gcc-2.7.2.3-8)
lilo 0.20 (lilo.conf includes: append "panic=60 mem=255M")

The kernel config is at the bottom of this email for easy removal for any
replies I might receive to this query. I've not noticed much in the way of
suggestions or even much interest in this problem on the list. Perhaps
this is understandable given the lack of info posted by the problem
reporters, but it's a bit disheartening to see the kernel developers
seemingly shrugging off reported stability problems in a supposedly stable
kernel. If I can provide any more information that will help track down
this problem I would be more than happy to do so. Thanks in advance for
your assistance and belatedly for contributing your time and effort into
developing such a wonderful product.

- donald

Kernel config
-------------
#
# Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit
#

#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y

#
# General setup
#
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_NET=y
# CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=m
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M586=y

#
# Floppy, IDE, and other block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set

#
# Networking options
#
# CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_FORWARD is not set
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
# CONFIG_RST_COOKIES is not set
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
# CONFIG_IP_MROUTE is not set
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
CONFIG_ATALK=m
# CONFIG_AX25 is not set
# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set

#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y

#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING=y
# CONFIG_OVERRIDE_CMDS is not set
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE=y
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS is not set
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=15
# CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH is not set

#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_DLCI is not set
# CONFIG_PLIP is not set
CONFIG_PPP=m
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
# CONFIG_EL1 is not set
# CONFIG_EL2 is not set
# CONFIG_ELPLUS is not set
# CONFIG_EL16 is not set
# CONFIG_EL3 is not set
CONFIG_VORTEX=y
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set

#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set

#
# CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set

#
# Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
# CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
# CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 is not set
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_SERIAL=m
# CONFIG_DIGI is not set
# CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set
# CONFIG_STALDRV is not set
# CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set
# CONFIG_PRINTER is not set
# CONFIG_SPECIALIX is not set
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
# CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m
# CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_UMISC is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_APM is not set
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set

#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set

#
# Kernel hacking
#
# CONFIG_PROFILE is not set

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