On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:23, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A firewall of ours recently went tits up (2.4.19). It was still routing
> traffic but when I connected to SSH for example the SSH banner would not
> appear, it looked like all userspace was dead.
>
> When we looked in the logs there was this. Presumably the hardware is
> broken. But I wonder if anyone can confirm this? Thanks!
>
> NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)
Turns out to be a 2bit ECC error. The machine is a dell power-edge 350.
--- linux-2.4.19.orig/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Mon Dec 23 13:28:32 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Mon Dec 23 15:11:24 2002
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@
{
unsigned long i;
- printk("NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)\n");
+ printk("NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt / ECC RAM error?)\n");
show_registers(regs);
/* Re-enable the IOCK line, wait for a few seconds */
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