Bug 176264
| Summary: | x366 NMI error logged in infinite loop - [crm#769552] Possible regression U7 beta | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Issue Tracker <tao> | ||||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Ernie Petrides <petrides> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 3.7 | CC: | bmaly, jparadis, krzeszut, lwang, peterm, petrides, syeghiay, tao | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Regression | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | ia32e | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHSA-2006-0144 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-03-15 16:57:43 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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| Bug Blocks: | 168426 | ||||||||
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Description
Issue Tracker
2005-12-20 18:05:31 UTC
Please assign the hardware "arch" field appropriately for an IBM x336. Thanks in advance. -ernie x336 is an EM64T system. Arch set accordingly. We have not been able to reproduce this at Red Hat. PeterM updated IT 85103 to request more information. At this point, no further progress can be made on this bugzilla. I recommend that this be removed from the RHEL3 U7 MustFix list. we dont support SAS on the 366 thus no way to install RHEL3 Created attachment 123318 [details]
dmi decode output
seems like perhaps a BIOS bug? can we confirm the system that exibits this
problem is running an older BIOS?
FYI: The problem appears during installation, even before anaconda starts detecting hard-drives (btw, Adaptec does have the SAS driver for RHEL3 U7 - I can provide the image file). The lab machine in Westford has the latest BIOS and still exhibits this problem. To reproduce this issue, bootup from RHEL3 U7, type: linux dd acpi=noirq And see it halt before anaconda with bunch of "Uhuh. Unknown NMI interrupts." Created attachment 123628 [details]
Screenshot of the NMI issue on a x366.
can IBM try booting with this command line option at boot: nmi_watchdog=0 does it solve the problem? Besides finding out whether nmi_watchdog=0 works around this problem, I'd also like to know why acpi=noirq is being used (and what exactly it does). Please provide the requested info in this bugzilla. Thanks in advance. IBM reports that nmi_watchdog=0 solves this problem. acpi=noirq should actually be acpi=no_irq. the NMI error doesnt show up until this boot option is used. its unclear to me what this boot option does though. Relinking IT 85103 to this bug. Also linking IT 85781 to this bug. A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U7 patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-40.EL). An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0144.html |