Re: 2.2.0-pre6 - spontaneous reboots w/{l3dec,sox,rm?}

brian j. pardy (posterkid@psnw.com)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:09:06 -0800


On Boomtime, the 12nd of Chaos, 3165, Tom Holroyd wrote:
> You could supply a little more info about your config. What type of
> disk/controller, are you using modules/kmod, what versions of things do
> you have (see scripts/ver_linux).

/dev/hda (/dev/hda1 as /, /dev/hda2 as swap) is a WDC AC36400L
(6.4gig, FwRev=09.09M08, which is the model with the DMA problems that
came up in the middle of 2.1.x, and I've had DMA explicitly disabled
since then).

/dev/hdb (/dev/hdb1 as /var/scratch, /dev/hdb2 as /tmp, /dev/hdb3 as
more swap) is a QUANTUM BIGFOOT1280A (1.3gig, FwRev=A01.03).

/dev/hdc: Memorex CRW-1622, ATAPI CDROM drive } both using SCSI/ATAPI
/dev/hdd: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:282, ATAPI CDROM } emulation

>From the old /proc/pci, my IDE controller is:

Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C416MV (rev 4).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001].

Curious thing -- on boot, I receive this printk():

PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 08, VID=1106, DID=1571
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

Again, from the old /proc/pci, device 8 is my video card:

Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE (rev 6).
Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000 [0xf0000000].

I am using kmod, with 3c59x.o as the only loaded module at the time of
failure. eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x6100, 00:60:97:c6:9c:e2,
IRQ 9.

ver_linux output:
-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Linux odin 2.2.0-pre6 #1 Sat Jan 9 16:36:38 PST 1999 i586 unknown
Kernel modules 2.1.121
Gnu C 2.7.2.3
Binutils 2.9.1
Linux C Library 5.4.44
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.0.5
Linux C++ Library 2.8.
Procps 1.2.7
Mount 2.7l
Net-tools (1998-03-02)
Kbd 0.94
Sh-utils 1.16

procps is actually version 1.2.9 -- I checked my source distribution,
just recompiled and reinstalled it. Each program still reports 1.2.7
to a --version/-V.

I see that my libc isn't 5.4.46 as Documentation/Changes recommends --
I upgraded based on the 5.4.44 listed on www.linuxhq.com/change21.html
and now wonder if that could be related.

I just installed 5.4.46, and have been unable to reproduce this. I
wasn't able to reproduce it at will before, though, it never failed
when I sat and watched it, but I would come home from work and it
would be rebooted.

My apologies if this was just a C library issue, sorry to take up the
time. I'll get back tomorrow or the next day with a report on whether
or not it starts crashing again.

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