On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:23, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A firewall of ours recently went tits up (2.4.19). It was still routing
> traffic but when I connected to SSH for example the SSH banner would not
> appear, it looked like all userspace was dead.
> 
> When we looked in the logs there was this. Presumably the hardware is
> broken. But I wonder if anyone can confirm this? Thanks!
> 
> NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)

Turns out to be a 2bit ECC error. The machine is a dell power-edge 350.

--- linux-2.4.19.orig/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c	Mon Dec 23 13:28:32 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c	Mon Dec 23 15:11:24 2002
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@
 {
 	unsigned long i;
 
-	printk("NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)\n");
+	printk("NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt / ECC RAM error?)\n");
 	show_registers(regs);
 
 	/* Re-enable the IOCK line, wait for a few seconds */


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