Bug 133606

Summary: kernel spontaneously reboots after login prompt appears
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-redhatbugzilla>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Reuben Farrelly 2004-09-25 07:12:26 UTC
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Description of problem:
I've not been running fedora kernels for a while but today fired up 
the latest one in -devel (entire system is up to date with devel).  I 
usually run -mm and vanilla kernel.org kernels.

The system boots up normally, and all looks well, however 5-10 
seconds after the system reaches it's final runlevel 3 and the login 
prompt appears, it falls over and returns to the bios screen.

This problem had not occurred with any other kernel I have ever 
tried, including the vanilla 2.6.8.1 from kernel.org.

The box passed with 100% on memtest, on a 4 hour run.

It is an Intel P4-2.8, with HT enabled, on a Gigabyte 8IPE1000-Pro2 
board (intel 865 chipset).  I am running reiserfs on a raid1 set of 
disks.

I've booted up with  maxcpus=1  and noapic   and the problem remains.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.8-1.584

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot up box
    

Actual Results:  Box reboots without warning or logging anything 
in /var/log/messages

Expected Results:  Box ought to have been stable ;-)

Additional info:

Box has latest BIOS installed, kernel is not tainted.  I am not 
overclocking the system.

Comment 1 Reuben Farrelly 2004-09-25 07:13:40 UTC
Kernel is the smp version.

Comment 2 Reuben Farrelly 2004-09-25 07:41:15 UTC
Box also spontaneously reboots even if only run up to single user 
mode :(

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2004-09-25 07:45:11 UTC
can you see if the i810_tco module is getting loaded? that's the
hardware watchdog your system has.....


Comment 4 Reuben Farrelly 2004-09-25 10:23:11 UTC
Yep, the i8xx_tco module is there...

Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2004-09-25 10:26:12 UTC
if you remove it (say from the filesystem) the reboots should go away..

Comment 6 Reuben Farrelly 2004-09-25 10:34:22 UTC
I've had 14 minutes of uptime with that kernel now, I never got 
anywhere near that before, so looks pretty likely that is the problem.

What is the workaround for this, is it to edit modprobe.conf?

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2004-09-28 17:44:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132719 ***

Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:05:52 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.