Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 138227
XSeries 336 freeze itself frequently RHEL AS 3 Update 3
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: I installed succesfully an IBM Xseries 336 Server. But the server freeze frequently and I have to power it off. The screen goes black and it appears with : See the system error log. Re-booting due to unexpected NMI at 0000:0000. The server is in a rack and is connected to a Think vision Monitor (6636-AB1). It is connected to a monitor switch (32P1635). Please Help !!!! Carlos. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Turn on the server 2.Wait some time (30 min- 1hour) 3.See the screen going black wit the reboot message and hang there. Additional info:
Please provide more useful info. At the least, we will need panic and/or oops data from the console (for which you might need to attach a serial console line).
Well, by now I can tell you that we are running 2.4.21-20.ELsmp kernel (RHES AS3 U3) and all the machines are freezing every day. The last that you can see in the screen is "Re-booting due to unexpected NMI at 0000:0000". I was looking for help and found some similar problems with this kernel.Do you have some other newer and fully tested kernels ?? I'll get the data from the console. Tks in advance.
This same problem is happening on our system xSeries 336 + ( 2.4.21-27.0.2-ELsmp ) too.
Doing a cscope search on the kernel sources, and the doing a "strings <kernel> | grep NMI" on both vmlinux-2.4.21-20.ELsmp and vmlinux-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp, this message does not appear to be coming from the kernel: Re-booting due to unexpected NMI at 0000:0000 Is this message being generated by the BIOS? And what does the message requesting "See the system error log" actually refer to?
I'm seeing this problem on a dual Xeon IBM x346 (model 8840). There is no kernel oops, and after the BIOS goes through checking memory, initing the two Broadcom ethernets and getting a "Status=OK" from the ServeRAID-7k, I get the message "Unexpected NMI at 000:0000". I don't think the kernel booted yet - there were no messages from GRUB. In my case it feels like a hardware to problem to me. Whether the kernel is creating inauspicious circumstances is anyone's guess.
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