Re: What are the general causes of frozen system?

[Larry Finger]

thockin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:05:37PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>
> > > Look for lock-related deadlocks.  Try turning on the nmi watchdog
> >
> > Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, adding either 
> > nmi_watchdog=1 or 2 makes my machine lockup in booting - just after ACPI 
> > is initialized.
>
>
> Try with acpi=off, too?

It turned out that an 'lacpi' was causing the boot lockup. I tried all 
combinations of acpi on/off and nmi_watchdog 1/2 without any success. 
The NMI count in /proc/interrupts remains stuck at 0.
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