OGL (was Re: Random total lockups)

[Rick Stevens]

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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