OGL (was Re: Random total lockups)

[Cyrus Adkisson]

I did try apic=no as a boot option.... is it really "noapic" instead?

Cyrus

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:57:45AM -0400, Cyrus Adkisson wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff Vian wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:03, Micheal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 17:08, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 02:27, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It would appear that on Jul 18, Rob Brown-Bayliss did say:
>>>>>>>
>>
>> .....
>>
>>> My next plan of attack is to swap my ethernet cards out for two 
>>> brand new ones, run a memory test with a boot CD, remove all USB in 
>>> favor of PS/2, and if nothing else works, switch motherboards. If 
>>> anyone has been having similar problems (especially someone with a 
>>> similar hardware config as mine) please let me know.
>>>
>>> FC2, dual opteron, MSI k8t master-FAR motherboard, USB mouse/kybd 
>>> with KVM switch.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmmm... Dual Opteron...
>> Are you running a 64 bit kernel? <insert version>
>> Are you running a 32 bit kernel? <insert version>
>> Are you running a SMP kernel?     <insert version>
>> Are you running a non FC2 distribution driver?  <insert version>
>>
>> For the sake of diagnosing the problem and perhaps stability you might
>> setup to run single processor.  Disable the second processor
>> and run a stock single processor version of the kernel.
>>
>> Since you are running KVM you might also take the KVM out of the loop
>> by adding a dedicated keyboard and mouse.  With X over ssh on a local
>> network I hardly use my KVM except to boot.
>>
>> The lack of symptoms smells like a multi processor lock
>> problem to me.  These can be painful to diagnose.
>
>
> Did you also try the "noapic" boot option?  That fixes a heck of a lot
> of SMP issues for Athlon, Athlon64 and Opterons.
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