Bug 82664
Summary: | random lockups on Dell PowerEdge 2650 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Tim Fournet <tfournet> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.3 | CC: | dombek, nobs4hc |
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Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Tim Fournet
2003-01-24 17:56:40 UTC
CORRECTION: this occurs on the original RH 7.3 kernel as well. I cannot tell what is causing it. -TF Running kernel 2.4.18-10smp works fine without lockups. Later kernels seem to lock the machine. A friend of mine has the same problem: dell 2650+rhl 7.3+all_erratas+all firmware(bios,backplane, PERC3) to the last level. And the system hangs without reason. hardware tests like memtest86 and dell_tests are passed without problems! My advise : to use the 2.4.9-12.e kernel of AS-2.1, while it is solved in 7.3. Because there are a lot of erros with previous 2.4.18 kernels: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-206.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-262.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2002-292.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-025.html or to try it with a beta/rawhide(danger!!!) kernel I'm experiencing the same issue with a Dell PE-2650 w/6GB. Using e1000 only, broadcoms are disabled. all kernels up to and including 2.4.18-27 bigmem have locked anywhere from 1 day to 3 weeks. I will try the noapic option tonight (3/27/03) and cross my fingers while we await a bug fix. It's 4/10/03 and under moderate load while I was at the console the box hung while running under the noapic option. No dump, no log, just a complete freeze while I was in Gnome setting up a new virtual machine using VMware GSX. I'm dumping Redhat 7.3 for VMware's ESX server ASAP. Dell has a server install CD which creates a utility partition on your drive. There are actually rpm's there which when installed on your system, greatly enhances the stability of your system. Without those rpm's I used to have 2650's that would lock up every four hours but with them, that's not an issue. Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |