Hard Lock with Fedora Core 1

Small, Jim jim.small at eds.com
Thu Mar 18 21:46:12 UTC 2004


I recently loaded Fedora Core 1 on an Intel Box.  It's a pretty standard
box.

I am running behind a proxy that required authorization, but I got that part
working fine.  I can do an up2date -l with no problems.

However, when I do an up2date -u (or use the GUI), it runs through the
procedures, but when it starts calculating the rpm dependencies, the machine
hard locks.  You can't ping it, Control-Alt-Delete, no mouse movement, no
response to keyboard, it's locked hard.

I would also like to mention that I was running BSD/OS on this box before
with no problems for months, so I think it's unlikely that it's a hardware
problem.  Since Linux has more advanced networking capabilities, I would
prefer to run Fedora.

What do I do to figure out what's causing the hard lock?

Any advice or suggestions greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
   <> Jim


I am attaching some info on the box in case it's helpful:
fedora{root}:/root<95>uname -a
Linux fedora.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST 2003
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

fedora{root}:/root<96>lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
soundcore               6468   0  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 35776   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  33728   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
bridge                 25172   2  (autoclean)
parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
lp                      9060   0  (autoclean)
parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13364   0  (autoclean) (unused)
e100                   56100   5 
floppy                 58012   0  (autoclean)
sg                     36492   0  (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod              108168   1  (autoclean) [sg]
microcode               4700   0  (autoclean)
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
mousedev                5556   1 
hid                    24708   0  (unused)
input                   5888   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci               26380   0  (unused)
usbcore                79168   1  [hid usb-uhci]
ext3                   71300   2 
jbd                    52084   2  [ext3]

fedora{root}:/root<97>dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl (bhcompile at daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc
version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST
2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fffc000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003fffc000 - 000000003ffff000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003ffff000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 262140
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 32764 pages.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 1999 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS                                      ) @ 0x000f58a0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS   P3B_F    0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3fffc000
ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS   P3B_F    0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3fffc080
ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS   P3B_F    0x30303031 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x3fffc040
ACPI: DSDT (v001   ASUS P3B_F    0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 551.262 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1101.00 BogoMIPS
Memory: 1032420k/1048560k available (1503k kernel code, 15752k reserved,
1110k data, 136k init, 131056k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf08b0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:04.0
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0d.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD84AA, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c040cfc0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6702B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 159k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 214555
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 214554
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 214553
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): 3 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:50:32 Oct 29 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0d.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik vojtech at suse.cz
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Adding Swap: 1574360k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran at veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=673, pflags=1)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.3.18-k1
Copyright (c) 2003 Intel Corporation

PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0d.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth2
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth2: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth3
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth3: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth4
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth4: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth2
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth3
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth4
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.3.18-k1
Copyright (c) 2003 Intel Corporation

PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0d.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth2
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth2: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth3
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth3: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth4
e100: selftest OK.
e100: eth4: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled

parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for br0
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
device eth4 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 3(eth4) entering learning state
br0: port 2(eth1) entering learning state
br0: port 1(eth0) entering learning state
divert: allocating divert_blk for br1
device eth2 entered promiscuous mode
device eth3 entered promiscuous mode
br1: port 2(eth3) entering learning state
br1: port 1(eth2) entering learning state
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex
e100: eth1 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex
e100: eth2 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex
e100: eth3 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex
e100: eth4 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex
br0: port 3(eth4) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br1: port 2(eth3) entering forwarding state
br1: topology change detected, propagating
br1: port 1(eth2) entering forwarding state
br1: topology change detected, propagating
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!


Additional comments:
There is no cdrom in the drive.

I also tried disabling bridging and just using one active NIC (all others
set to down) to see if it's something with bridging.  No difference, still
hard locks.  Also seems to hardlock with some screensavers although this
I've seen before.  I think some 3D screen savers cause problems with certain
video cards/drivers.





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