Modprobe or related deciding to reboot? was: Re: Lockups - lost

Stephen D. Williams (sdw@lig.net)
Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:41:47 -0400


I've had two reboots with my otherwise stable 2.2.13pre6+LinuxDirector kernel and
they seem to have happened due to modprobe or something running modprobe failing
to find what it was looking for:

Sep 12 22:46:39 psa4 modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3
Sep 12 22:46:41 psa4 last message repeated 6 times
Sep 12 22:47:04 psa4 init: Switching to runlevel: 6

Sep 12 19:39:39 psa4 modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3
Sep 12 23:38:36 psa4 last message repeated 7 times
Sep 12 19:46:14 psa4 syslogd 1.3-3: restart.

Sep 12 23:49:22 psa4 modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3
Sep 12 23:49:24 psa4 last message repeated 6 times
Sep 12 23:49:55 psa4 init: Switching to runlevel: 6

One survival:
Sep 13 00:08:27 psa4 modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3
Sep 13 00:08:29 psa4 last message repeated 6 times
Sep 13 00:10:00 psa4 kernel: arp_send: src_ip: 216.33.104.139, dest_ip:
216.33.104.139
(That last message is from some debugging printk's I added to arp.c. It wasn't in
the earlier kernel runs.)

(I think you can ignore the time problems, something's broken with ntp or the
motherboard time after a reboot.)

Could be just coincidence.

sdw

"Stephen D. WIlliams" wrote:

> Another datapoint:
>
> I installed 2.2.12 on two servers, both Pentium Celeron 433/128K cache, 256MB
> ram, no IDE, no floppy, no sound, text only console, on board Adaptec 2990
> Ultra2Wide SCSI, 1 WD 18300 LVD Ultra2 Wide SCSI drive 18GB and onboard
> Realtek 100-base-t ethernet. All of this is on the motherboard with a passive
> backplane.
>
> One ISA 3Com 515 ethernet card.
>
> One server had no problem, the other locked up hard, requiring a manual fsck.
> Thereafter it crashed and rebooted every few minutes.
>
> Unfortunately these have no heads, being co-located, however I was able to
> install 2.2.13Pre6 patch from Alan's directory and the problem disappeared
> completely.
>
> I do have the LVS (Linux Virtual Server/LinuxDirector) patch applied also.
> It's working great except I'm having trouble keeping the loopback aliases from
> generating ARP replies... (The subject of my next message.)
>
> sdw
>
> Mike Black wrote:
>
> > I've been having some lockups on numerous version of the 2.2 series
> > (10,11,12) in both SMP and non-SMP mode.
> >
> > Usually the machine is just locked up hard (alt-sys-req does not work).
> >
> > This last time though, some scsi timeouts, ide "lost interrupt" messages,
> > and ethernet timeouts were showing up on the screen. I still could not do
> > anything with alt-sys-req.
> >
> > When an IDE timeout occurred the IDE drive showed some activity followed by
> > the "hda lost interrupt" message.
> >
> > It looks like the system was losing ALL interrupts which would also explain
> > why the keyboard wasn't working.
> >
> > Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this? Is this a bad
> > motherboard? CPU?
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > Michael D. Black Principal Engineer
> > mblack@csi.cc 407-676-2923,x203
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