Bug 97330
| Summary: | hard kernel lockup/hang within minutes of boot | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Danny Yee <bookreviewer> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:41:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: After upgrading (from kernel-smp-2.4.18-19.7.x), my server now hangs (hard, no ping response) within around 5 minutes of booting. Nothing at all appears in the log files, and the hung machine never responds SysReq key commands. Previous kernels (all the way back to RH 7.1) weren't totally stable, but the mean time between lockups was closer to 10 days than five minutes. With the earlier kernels, events that helped to crash the system were dumps to a (local) SDLT tape drive or large file transfers over the network (e.g. netatalk or ftp). I'm hoping the more frequent crashes with the newer kernel are a guide to what the problem is. It's almost certainly hardware-related, but there's nothing unusual about the hardware (SDS2 motherboard with EEPro ethernet, aic7899 SCSI and I20 raid) - and I've tried running without the RAID and with a 3com ethernet card instead and the crashes still happened. [Is there some way to stop the kernel driving the PCI bus at max?] Even weirder, I had the same problem on a completely different machine, and it followed me to the current hardware over rsync... it's been happening to me ever since I first moved to kernel 2.4 - ie for over a year now :-( Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.4.20-18.7 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. do an SDLT dump - about 50% likely to cause a lockup in the course of dumping 100gig (DLT dumps never seemed to cause a problem). (or) 2. try copying several gigabytes to a Mac via netatalk - again, about 50% likely to cause a lockup, approaching 100% with time. Additional info: If you have any queries, I'm happy to provide more information. I can provide all the hair I've pulled out over this, too :-).