Re: 2.4.27 suddenly hangs

[zergio]

Simon Braunschmidt wrote:

> I have a similar problem at the moment, i have setup my box with 
> gentoo and now i get hardlocks from time to time (time < 1.5 days), 
> happens with and without x, kernel 2.4.27 untainted, with apic on and 
> off, acpi on and off, apm on and off...
>
> @zergio: Can you tell me if it only happened with 2.4.27?

No, it had happened with 2.4.20 kernel.

> The system is really stuck when it crashes. My wireless keyboard has a 
> led to indicate traffic, an when system hangs, not even the led would 
> blink, it just stays in either on or off state (its normaly off). No 
> disk activity, mouse is locked, display remains unchanged (x.org nv or 
> plain (non-fbdev) console). Havent tried so far to reach the box over 
> network, but is suspect it will not work.
>
> @developers:
> Maybe thats a hint, could it be that a broken keyboard induces such 
> behaviour?
>
> Im going to change kernel to 2.4.24 (had uptimes > 14 days with it) 
> and see if it helps.
>
> As far as i can see, nothing was written to the logs, no messages, it 
> just peacefully dies...

In my case it has happened with and without keyboard and with keyboard 
connected to D-Link KVM Switch

> zergio schrieb:
>
> > Hello, all!
> > Iâm not sure that the below problem is kernel related, however, I 
> > think, this mailing list is the best place to start. I've got 2x1.8 
> > Xeon on Intel SE7500CW2 motherboard with Intel SCSI RAID (GDT 
> > driver). The system powered by Red Hat Linux 7.3 with custom kernel 
> > version 2.4.27.
> > Occasionally, the system just hangs, without giving any error messages 
>
> how long is occasionaly?

There is no strict period of time. Some time server up for couple of 
month. Recently the issue occured twice within 7 days.
It've happened 7 time during last half a year or so.

> > to syslog or any panic-like messages to the screen. No response to 
> > ping. Usually it happens on weekends in early hours, but not at 
> > particular time and day, when usersâ activity is minimal. Couple of 
> > times the last few messages before, the hang had strange timestamps. 
> > It seems like the system time entered a TIME LOOP within a period of 
> > 1 second.
> > Nov 6 05:37:31 service dhcpd: Message...
> > Nov 6 05:37:32 service named: Message...
> > Nov 6 05:37:31 service named: Message...
> > Almost all the time last messages came from different services, 
> > except three times, when mgetty was the last. I'd updated mgetty, 
> > pppd, kernel (from 2.4.20), BIOS, dhcpd etc., however, the problem 
> > remains.
> > Can anyone tell me, how I can detect, what application or hardware 
> > cause such a problem.
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> > Thank you in advance
> >
> > These are services being run on the server:
> > gpm
> > named
> > iptables
> > crond
> > ldap
> > smb
> > xinetd (swat amanda)
> > autofs
> > nfs
> > qmail
> > sqwebmail
> > dhcpd
> > ups
> > sshd
> > firebird
> > ntpd
> > httpd
> > arpwatch
> > drwebd
> > mgetty
> > pppd
> > postgresql
> >
> >
> >
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