Re: 2.6.13.2 crash on shutdown on SMP machine

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Sat Oct 01 2005 - 10:56:57 EST


On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Clemens Koller wrote:

> Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>
> It's reproducable... I got the same thing with a slightly different configured
> 2.6.13.2-npe (no preemtion, no acpi, no apm) but beside that, I got other
> very strange crashes (page table something thingys?) as well during a CRUX
> pkgmk
> tool to build i.e. samba. So I wasn't able to get the system stable enough for
> more serious testing yet.
> I am about to grab the latest linus' git tree and try that...
>
> This system was running for a long time with linux without any problems
> in the past. But I had to change the hdd (old one was broken) and installed
> a new (CRUX) system from scratch... I migrated to 2.6.13.2 and switched over
> to udev... I was running memtest86 for about half a day. It didn't show any
> problems. Are there good torture tests to check if a system's hw is stable?

memtest and repeated multijob kernel/gcc builds seems to do a very good
job. Let me know how the new kernel goes, i'm going to try and see if any
of my systems can trigger it.

Thanks,
Zwane

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