From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.6 [en] (Win95; U) Description of problem: Both smp and up versions of newly distributed 2.4.9-7 crash on startup... AAC: NMI_DMA_0_ERROR aacraid:0 ABORT/ interrupt_status = 0 ( <--- ten times) Then repeated percraid:0 RESET aacraid:0 ABORT itnerrrupt_status = 0 Finally, Code: 0f 0b 59 5b 89 7c 24 04 b8 03 00 00 00 <0> Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler. In interrupt handler - not syncing Reboot from linux.bak or linux-smp.bak works fine (kernel 2.4.7-10 smp or up of 7.2 release) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Additional info:
Red Hat Folks, This is a duplicate of 54021, which you claimed was fixed and which you apparently closed without testing or waiting for user feedback. I commented on 10/11/2001 that this still did not work and should be reopened but apparently, fixing this bug so that PERC RAID users can upgrade to a kernel that doesn't have the recent kernel vulnerabilities is not a priority with Red Hat. I know that getting an updated kernel out is a priority and that holding up the release for a show stopping bug that affects only Dell PowerEdge servers with PERC RAID controllers isn't a good thing but you have known about this bug for over a month, you closed the bug without verifying that it was fixed, and I'm stuck with a vulnerable kernel, which all leave me a little frustrated with your QA process.
All our aacraid machines work with the new kernel. That makes me think something else is wrong here; are you booting the SMP kernel ?
I've experienced the same problem when attempting to run the 2.4.9-7enterprise kernel and had to revert to the stock 7.2 kernel.
See http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-aacraid-devel/2001-November/000234.html for a far better description and solution than I could ever come up with. I am booting the SMP kernel - there are no uniprocessor kernels on this machine.
RedHat, I installed 2.4.7-10smp and run fine on a dell 2500.. Upgraded to kernel 2.4.9- 13smp and it wouldn't boot in that kernel. Produced error (AAC: NMI_DMA_0_ERROR) on bootup.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the Interrupt Requests problem. cat /proc/interupts and see what the aacraid driver is doing (if you get your box up).
Alan Cox rewrote the aacraid driver for 2.4.9-21, does it work with that ?