Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 87417
reproducable system lockup with kernel-2.4.18-26.8.0
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:28 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: System completely locks up during normal operation. Simple workloads e.g. a Linux kernel compile repeatedly and reproducably cause a total system lockup which requires a power-off/on cycle. The problem is not limited to kernel compile scenario, running ImageMagick's "convert" program on a set of digital photographs also crashed the machine. After a reboot the problem is reproducable within 2 minutes running some non trivial workloads as listed above. The hardware is an ASUS A7V8X board with a VIA KT 400 Chipset. The processor is an Athlon XP 2000. Sound is disabled and no USB devices are attached. Disk is a Maxtor 60GB in UDMA(100) mode. Two Ethernets are configured: (1) the on- board Broadcom adapter plus (2) an Intel Etherpro 100. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.18-26.8.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run kernel compile or ImageMagick's "convert" or run any other non-trivial workload that stresses processor and I/O 2. 3. Actual Results: system lockup, no panic screen Additional info: Using vanilla Linux-2.4.20, manually configured for the components that are actually installed in the computer makes the system run without any problems.
I was wondering what the status of this bug is? In the meantime I upgraded to RedHat 9 and the problem is still there. I have tried vanilla kernel trees (up to 2.4.21-rc6) and the official redhat kernels up to 2.4.20-13.9 and the problem is still reproducable. PS: Is there any additional information that I could possibly provide?
I would recommend to run the memtest86 test (www.memtest86.com iirc) to test your ram chips; and to check for bios upgrades...
have run memtest86, did not find any problems. Also have done BIOS update from ASUS support site today (currently running Version 1012 Beta 9, file name 1012.011). The problem still persists. Is this motherboard, or better the VIA KT400 chipset on it supposed to be supported sufficently current 2.4.x linux kernels? I am very close to giving up on this board, in case I go for a replacement, would the A7N8x (with the nforce-2 chipset) be supported by RH 9?
KT400 works well with Linux. Except yours it seems 8) I dont think its a simple incompatible hardware problem here
have replaced the A7V8X (KT400) mainboard with an A7N8X (nforce2) mainboard and moved DRAMs and processor to the new board. Bad enough the problem persisted. I would conclude that it is indeed not a problem of the KT400 chipset support in the Linux kernel. As a next step I have replaced the Athlon XP 2000+ with an Athlon XP 1400+ (ripped it out of another PC) and with that processor the A7N8X runs just fine. I haven't verified yet whether this processor also runs fine with the A7V8X. It seems like there is a problem with my Athlon XP 2000+ processor
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/