Re: lotsa oops - 2.6.5 (preempt + unable handle virutal address + more?)

From: Pods
Date: Sun Jun 06 2004 - 01:01:50 EST


i'll get to your suggestions soon, infact the RAM was my next plan of
attack. But meanwhile, why dont you have a look at some new oops output from
a new kernel with lots of debug info turned on.

http://users.quickfox.org/~pods/linux-issues/kernel-debug-oops.txt


--------- Original Message --------
From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Pods <pods@xxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: lotsa oops - 2.6.5 (preempt + unable handle virutal address +
more?)
Date: 06/06/04 05:28

>
> On Saturday 05 June 2004 18:27, Pods wrote:
> &gt; &gt;&gt; Run memtest86
> &gt; Tried once before, didnt boot... died :( memtest page says this
happens on
> &gt; some hardware and they're not sure why.
>
> Ho hum. Looks like good starting point to debug.
> Remove RAM until you have &lt;= 2 GB, then run memtest86
> (or modified versions of it with debug prints)
> until you know where it dies.
>
> &gt; &gt;&gt; Underclock your system
> &gt; its not over clocked :/
>
> I mean, underclock below normal conditions.
>
> &gt; &gt;&gt; lower IDE DMA mode and see whether it stops oopsing.
> &gt;
> &gt; tried setting dma = off in hdparm, didnt work, still got crashes
compiling
> &gt; firebird.. infact, it didnt even get passed the ./configure stage :(
>
> Use hdparm to set, say, udma0.
>
> &gt; Each time (just about, didnt do it once out of 6ish times) i set the
dma to
> &gt; off (either at boot or runtime) i got a &quot;spurious 8259A
interript: IRQ 7&quot;..
> &gt; apparantly, iirc that debug message has been taken out of 2.6.6
>
> I have 'em too. Not a real issue on lots of systems.
>
> &gt; Please guys, CC me your responces, otherwise i have to look at some
> &gt; archives, and reply via webmail... it took 2 firefox crashes (one of
which
> &gt; brought down X) to just right this message... now im going to take a
chance
> &gt; and hit the submit
> &gt; button
> --
> vda
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