Bug 86214 – System frezees at least once a day regardless of work it performs

Bug 86214 - System frezees at least once a day regardless of work it performs

Summary:	System frezees at least once a day regardless of work it performs

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2003-03-17 05:53 EST by AMur
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:52 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-03-26 07:13:52 EST
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Description AMur 2003-03-17 05:53:35 EST

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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
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Actual Results:  System freezes -- no response to mouse, keyboard, network, etc.

Expected Results:  Working system

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Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2003-03-17 05:55:44 EST

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

Comment 2 AMur 2003-03-26 07:13:52 EST

Issue resolved by upgrading to kernel-2.14.18-27smp

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