Red Hat 7 is locking up on my Biostar M7MKA motherboard with an AMD Athlon 650. Sometimes X will freeze; remote telnet/ssh/ping attempts receive no reply. In burning a CD in single-user mode, a kernel oops or other panic will sometimes be generated; please email if you want the exact text of one of these failures. Below is /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 1 model name : AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 648.748 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr 6 mce cx8 sep mtrr pge 14 cmov fcmov 22 mmx 30 3dnow bogomips : 1294.34 Below is the output of lsmod: [cfisher@dominique net]$ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by ide-cd 23628 0 (autoclean) lockd 31176 1 (autoclean) sunrpc 52964 1 (autoclean) [lockd] old_tulip 25464 1 (autoclean) agpgart 18600 0 (unused) nls_cp437 3876 2 (autoclean) vfat 9404 1 (autoclean) fat 30688 1 (autoclean) [vfat] emu10k1 42952 0 soundcore 2596 4 [emu10k1] mousedev 3660 0 (unused) hid 11424 0 (unused) input 2972 0 [mousedev hid] usb-ohci 12360 0 (unused) usbcore 42088 1 [hid usb-ohci] Below is the output of dmesg: Linux version 2.2.16-22 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 Detected 648748 kHz processor. ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1294.34 BogoMIPS Memory: 127764k/131008k available (1048k kernel code, 408k reserved, 1724k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K CPU: L2 Cache: 512K CPU: AMD AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping 02 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb5c0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:00 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022, DID=7409 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: Maxtor 92041U4, ATA DISK drive hdc: ASUS CD-S360, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: CR-2801TE, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 92041U4, 19541MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 1466.088 MB/sec p5_mmx : 1678.305 MB/sec 8regs : 864.108 MB/sec 32regs : 706.755 MB/sec using fastest function: p5_mmx (1678.305 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 72252k swap-space (priority -1) usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc8026000, IRQ 12 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2 usb.c: This device is not recognized by any installed USB driver. usb.c: registered new driver hid input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Mouse] on usb1:2.0 mouse0: PS/2 mouse device for input0 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.6, 16:53:07 Aug 22 2000 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8027 found, IO at 0xe800-0xe81f, IRQ 10 Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M agpgart: Detected AMD Irongate chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000 tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker.nasa.gov eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0xe400, 00 00 c0 a2 d2 f2, IRQ 11. eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block. eth0: MII transceiver found at MDIO address 3, config 3100 status 7829. eth0: Advertising 01e1 on PHY 3, previously advertising 01e1. eth0: Advertising 01e1 on PHY 0 (3). eth0: Using user-specified media MII. eth0: Advertising 01e1 on PHY 0 (3). hdc: ATAPI 36X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10 hdd: driver not present (This from later modprobe ide-scsi): scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-2801TE Rev: 1.10 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x writer xa/form2 cdda tray The Mitsumi CD recorder is pretty old; cdrecord produces lots of kernel IDE errors during the fixation stage. I've been pretty dedicated to the Red Hat product for some time. I hope this problem is easy to resolve.
Downgraded to kernel 2.2.16-3.i686.rpm (6.2 errata version) with rpm -ivh --force. Things seem much more stable, but I would like to be using the latest and greatest.
Please provide info on the panics. I'd also be interested in what installing running memtest86 says
I installed memtest86 and ran one pass with no errors (why couldn't I compile it under 7.0?). Below is what I copied down from a kernel panic (I wish Linux would save this info to swap and restore it at next boot like other unixen): CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<ffffffff>] EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: 00000011 ebx: c7f98aa0 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000001 ... Code: Bad EIP value. Aiee, killing interrupt handler Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In swapper task - not syncing
I am also getting the same results on 2 seperate Athalon machines. One is a 550 and the other is an IBM Aptiva 880 with an 800 Mhz. The 550 is also equipped with a CDR.
I experienced random lockups as well. I am using the Athlon Classic 500MHz with the AMD 750 chipset. My problem was solved when I removed the usb modules. Apparently there is a bug in them which causes random lockups. I did trace a kernel panic but it showed originated from the agpgart module, which was not the problem. Remove the usb modules and you might have a stable system as well. See bug <A HREF=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18510>18510</A>.
The old old USB issues are believed long dead, reopen if not