OGL (was Re: Random total lockups)

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

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:
> >>>>
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> 
> 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.


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