Description of problem: During a reboot, the following BIOS message is displayed: "Timer interrupt error". The system then reboots and appears to behave normally, but it hangs during startup, after the message "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Linux toshiba.badmuts.org 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 21:41:26 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux System is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 2100 laptop (the same hardware has been sold earlier as the Toshiba Satellite 2410 series). Intel Celeron CPU 1500 MHz, Intel chipset. System is a 3-4 years old IIRC. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot and observe 2. 3. Additional info: This started happening after I upgraded from F7 to F8. Please let me know if I can assist in any way.
I'm seeing the same thing on two Toshiba 5105-s607. They used to run FC6 with no error on reboot. With F8, this error appears requiring a power cycle for a successful boot.
I just ran some reboot testing, and found that I can prevent the error by booting with kernel parameter: clocksource=pit Of course, wakeups per second went from about 200 to 1000. I tried hpet with hires=off, and that had no effect on the timer error. Nor did acpi_pm.
Hello, I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to isolate current bugs in the Fedora kernel. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage I am CC'ing myself to this bug and will try and assist you in resolving it if I can. There hasn't been much activity on this bug for a while. This should now be resolved - can you verify with the latest kernel? If the problem no longer exists then please close this bug or I'll do so in a few days if there is no additional information lodged.
Yes, for me it's solved with the latest kernel. I kind of noticed it by accident though, because nothing in the kernel changelog indicated there had been fixes in this area.
Confirming; booting 2.6.23.14-115.fc8 without clocksource=pit no longer causes a problem. I'd like to second that it would be nice if the changelog referenced bugs that were thought to be fixed, as I also missed that this was the case in the current kernel. There was no package announcement for this kernel either - I had to check koji for the changelog.
I'm getting the same behavior on reboot ("timer interrupt error" message, then a hang after the message "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel"). After a cold boot, though, the system behaves normally. The kernel is 2.6.25.11-60 fc8 running on a Toshiba A45-S250 with a brand new hard drive. fc8 is the only OS on this machine.