process hangs on 13xx smp kernels

[Jonathan Deitch]

Isaac,

That still doesn't help the base situation : I can boot a nonsmp kernel 
just fine.  It's only smp kernels that fail.



Issac Newton wrote:

>A Boot-disk should allow you to use keyboard and mouse. OR try a rescue
>disk, should be the same as boot disk. Shoot I am confusing myself.
>
>DONT KILL THE NEWBIE(me)
>-Ice
>--- Jonathan Deitch <pinball at litz.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Umm ...
>>
>>That's not going to help my problem, unforunately,
>>
>>In my case, it finishes booting and you have no keyboard, no mouse,
>>and 
>>no network.
>>
>>So no way to log in, no way to get to a console, no way to do
>>anything.
>>
>>So ... any other ideas?
>>
>>I have this problem on every single 2.6.9 and 2.6.11 smp kernel
>>that's 
>>been released, on both FC3 and FC4T3.  Nothing has helped - no kernel
>>
>>parms, nothing.
>>
>>I'm very very close to getting frustrated enough where I'm going to
>>have 
>>to dump fedora, if there's not some kind of a solution soon.
>>
>>- litz
>>
>>
>>Dave Jones wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:57:37PM -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>1366 smp kernel also has process hangs ... standard dell
>>>>        
>>>>
>>poweredge 2400 
>>    
>>
>>>>dual 1ghz processors, 1gbyte memory, hardware raid, six scsi
>>>>        
>>>>
>>drives ... 
>>    
>>
>>>>originally shipped with redhat 7 installed. regress to smp kernel
>>>>        
>>>>
>>1276 
>>    
>>
>>>>and everything ok (all 13xx smp kernels have had process hang
>>>>        
>>>>
>>problems).
>>    
>>
>>>Something else to try, is booting with nmi_watchdog=1
>>>When it hangs, it should then print a backtrace after 5 seconds.
>>>(This does need you to be on the console though, so make sure
>>>X isn't focused -- unless you have a serial console.)
>>>
>>>		Dave
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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