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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: I'm running RedHat 8.0 with kernel 2.4.18-14 on Dell Precision 450 workstation. Hardware installed: 2xPentium 4 Xeon 2.8 GHz proccessors, 2.0G SDRAM, 2x 100G HDD (Western Digital WD1200JB-75CRA0) and 82545EM Gigabit Network controller. I've recompiled the kernel with only the following changes from standart SMP configuration: added NTFS support, removed PCMCIA stuff. The system keeps freezing, at least once a day with no pattern visible - sometimes as I type, sometimes when running heavy calculations, sometimes even when only activity is screensaver. After reading the forums I've found that driver for Gigabit nic may be responsible for freeze. I obtained latest (4.4-12) driver from Intel and compiled it, with no change to the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.18-14smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the system, wait for couple of hours . Actual Results: System freezes -- no response to mouse, keyboard, network, etc. Expected Results: Working system Additional info:
can you paste the output of lsmod ? also can you try adding "nmi_watchdog=1" to the vmlinuz line in the /boot/grub/grub.conf file, this will enable a kernel deadlock detector. note: you kernel is quite a few security and bugfix errata behind
Issue resolved by upgrading to kernel-2.14.18-27smp