From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020706 Description of problem: I've gotten three complete system crashes (the computer suddenly reboots), seemingly at random, since installing Red Hat 8.0. I upgraded the kernel yesterday to 2.4.8-17.8.0, and I got another crash today. During two of the panics I was looking at images in mozilla, the other one happened completely randomly outside of mozilla or anything with images. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try, it's not clear how I could. Steps to Reproduce: I don't know of a way to reproduce this. Additional info: I'm using the SMP kernel on a Dell Precision 220 workstation with dual PIII 1Ghz processors and 384M of RAM. I've had this computer for over a year, always running the latest Red Hat, with no problems until upgrading to 8.0.
can you paste the output of "lsmod" here ? that way I can see which drivers might cause this
The NVdriver is from NVidia's Linux driver, version 3123. However, I only installed this yesterday, so I've had the crashes both before and after using this driver. # lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: P ide-cd 33640 0 (autoclean) cdrom 34176 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] i810_audio 26504 1 (autoclean) ac97_codec 13512 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio] soundcore 7108 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio] agpgart 43808 3 (autoclean) NVdriver 1149760 10 (autoclean) parport_pc 19236 1 (autoclean) lp 9188 0 (autoclean) parport 39136 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] autofs 13700 0 (autoclean) (unused) 3c59x 31408 1 ipt_REJECT 3736 6 (autoclean) iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean) ip_tables 15640 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter] mousedev 5688 1 keybdev 2976 0 (unused) hid 22404 0 (unused) input 6240 0 [mousedev keybdev hid] usb-uhci 27276 0 (unused) usbcore 80512 1 [hid usb-uhci] ext3 73024 6 jbd 56752 6 [ext3] aic7xxx 138452 5 sd_mod 13552 10 scsi_mod 110408 2 [aic7xxx sd_mod]
is there any chance you can get the actual oops? (it may be in the /var/log/messages file)
I didn't see it. The log file goes from printing a lot of NVRM messages (which it does all the time) directly to the reboot. Here's a snippet: Oct 22 09:06:01 inspired kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 128 pages Oct 22 09:06:01 inspired kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 257 pages Oct 22 09:16:05 inspired kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 257 pages Oct 22 09:16:05 inspired kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 128 pages Oct 22 09:26:05 inspired kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 128 pages Oct 22 09:26:05 inspired kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 257 pages Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired syslog: syslogd startup succeeded Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: Linux version 2.4.18-17.8.0smp (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 SMP Tue Oct 8 12:39:01 EDT 2002 Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017f9e000 (usable) Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000017f9e000 - 0000000018000000 (reserved) Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved) Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: 0MB HIGHMEM available. Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired kernel: 383MB LOWMEM available. Oct 22 12:44:05 inspired syslog: klogd startup succeeded Is there something I can set so that if it happens again, there will be some sort of log or debugging info?
You should see something with a lot of hexadecimal numbers in the form [<c802321>] some_random_thing 0/0x234 or so btw "The NVdriver is from NVidia's Linux driver, version 3123. However, I only installed this yesterday, so I've had the crashes both before and after using this driver." did you run without the nvidia stuff before that ?
When I installed Red Hat 8.0, I didn't install the NVidia drivers right away. So the first two times it crashed, the NVidia drivers were not installed.
My system just crashed again. I was just web surfing, and boom, it reboots. Unfortunately, I don't see anything in the /var/log/messages file, it just goes straight from regular log messages to the reboot. Is there anything I can do to generate any useful information for this? If it happens again, I'll try running without the NVidia drivers, and see if it goes away.
I am having the same problem with a compaq DL380 G2. I installed another proc after 30 days of uptime, installed the smp kernel less then 24 hours later crash, no messages in the error log, attached is a lsmod. I am running redhat 7.3 with kernel version 2.4.18-17.7.x Module Size Used by Not tainted nfsd 75360 8 (autoclean) autofs 11172 0 (autoclean) (unused) nfs 82720 1 (autoclean) lockd 55296 1 (autoclean) [nfsd nfs] sunrpc 73876 1 (autoclean) [nfsd nfs lockd] tg3 45120 1 eepro100 20240 0 (unused) reiserfs 183392 2 (autoclean) usb-ohci 20192 0 (unused) usbcore 71072 1 [usb-ohci] ext3 64800 5 jbd 47892 5 [ext3] cciss 38912 8 sd_mod 12832 0 (unused) scsi_mod 104800 1 [cciss sd_mod]
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