[BUG] 2.4.[01] lockups

[BUG] 2.4.[01] lockups

[Ivan Borissov Ganev]

Hello,

I am experiencing a problem with both 2.4.0 and 2.4.1. The problem is that
at seemingly random times the console locks up. After the lockup I can no
longer type and the mouse is frozen. As far as I can tell, other systems
services are not affected, i.e. programs continue to run, music is being
played, I/O is fine. It looks like _only_ the console devices are locked
up.

I work under X most of the time, but this has happened on a bare VC once
also. The frequency of occurrence varies from 0 to a few times a day, with
an average about 1 time/day.

When it happens I use my UPS to power the machine down gracefully and then
reboot, however, it is a nuisance. After reboot the system log does not
have anything out of the ordinary in it. I think this might be related to
the other reports of lockups with 2.4.1 (by Ed Tomlinson and Alexander
Zvyagin).

The system specs are the following:

motherboard: ABIT BH6 rev 1.0
	the BH6 is based on Intel's 440BX chipset
	(chipset BIOS updated to the latest available one)

CPU: Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02 @ 400MHz

RAM: 256MB SDRAM

HDD: 3 hard drives:
	hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT TS8.4A, ATA DISK drive	( 8GB)
	hdb: WDC WD205AA, ATA DISK drive		(30GB)
	hdc: WDC AC21200H, ATA DISK drive		( 1GB)

CD-ROM:
	hdd: CR-801NP, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

FDC:
	Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
	FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

ttyS:
	two serial ports on the motherboard

video:
	Matrox Millenium G200 (8MB SDRAM)

eth:
	Intel EtherExpressPro 10/100 (connected to DSL)

sound:
	Creative SB AWE64 (ISA device)

modem:
	USR3030/2729371324[0]{U.S. Robotics 56K FAX INT}

I also have a Hauppauge bt848-based TV tuner card but the driver for it
is compiled as a module and not loaded or used.

All hard drives use DMA by default but the kernel usually switches to PIO
for the CD-ROM after I start using it.

Any ideas as to the cause for the lockups would be greatly appreciated. I
am also willing to experiment/troubleshoot/test possible solutions, except
that I have no idea where to start from.

Cheers,
--Ivan


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Problems with Linux 2.4.1

[Alexander Zvyagin]

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Hello,

I have several problems with my computer (running RedHat 6.2) under Linux
2.4.1 kernel. (See attached files for more information).

Here is a short summary:

1) Audio card (based on SiS chipset) does not work due to incorrect
   initialization of PCI resources. It seems that this is not a problem of
   audio driver, but may be I am wrong.
   The kernel prints this message:

PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:01.4
  got res[1000:10ff] for resource 0 of Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
SiS PCI Audio Accelerator

2) Frame-buffer mode does not work with my video card SiS630.
   But ok, frame-buffer mode is EXPERIMENTAL in linux.
   Computer boots, but screen is blank. All messages are fine. 

3) Kernel prints (working with DVD-ROM)
   hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
   I tried CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE to set NO and YES
   but nothing helped. Well, this is a minor problem, because the device
   works regardless of that message.

4) Sometimes computer hangs up. It does not happen too often
   (it happend 2 times), but I am curious why? There is no OOPS, and log
   files do not have any error messages... And I can not reproduce this
   bug.

I spend already several days in attempts to configure all my hardware
(mainly audio card) under linux properly. Any help is greatly appreciated.

P.S. Please CC your answer to me because I am not member of your mail
list.

Thank you,
Alexander.

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Linux version 2.4.1 (root@az.private) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sat Feb 3 15:42:40 MSK 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000020000 @ 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000036f0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000000ffc0 @ 00000000037f0000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000040 @ 00000000037fffc0 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000040000 @ 00000000fffc0000 (reserved)
Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes.
Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 4096 bytes.
On node 0 totalpages: 14320
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 10224 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (010ef000)
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=l ro root=303 pci=biosirq
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 797.467 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x50
Calibrating delay loop... 1592.52 BogoMIPS
Memory: 54068k/57280k available (1056k kernel code, 2824k reserved, 377k data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xeb440, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 00:01.4
  got res[1000:10ff] for resource 0 of Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator
  got res[10000000:10000fff] for resource 0 of Texas Instruments PCI1420
  got res[10001000:10001fff] for resource 0 of Texas Instruments PCI1420 (#2)
isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
DMI 2.3 present.
46 structures occupying 1508 bytes.
DMI table at 0x000ED932.
BIOS Vendor: Insydesw
BIOS Version: Version 5.08
BIOS Release: 10/28/2000
System Vendor: CLEVO Co.       .
Product Name: LP200.
Version      .
Serial Number       .
Board Vendor: CLEVO Co.       .
Board Name: LP200.
Board Version:      .
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
block: queued sectors max/low 35832kB/11944kB, 128 slots per queue
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1.
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS630
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1100-0x1107, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1108-0x110f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 20, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TORiSAN DVD-ROM DRD-U824, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63, UDMA(66)
hdc: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
udf: registering filesystem
Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
sis900.c: v1.07.07  11/29/2000
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:01.1
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0d.0
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0x3000, IRQ 11, 00:90:f5:00:47:86.
eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default
Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451 PCI Audio, version 0.14.6, 15:44:04 Feb  3 2001
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:01.4
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:01.6
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0c.1
trident: SiS 7018 PCI Audio found at IO 0x1000, IRQ 5
ac97_codec: AC97  codec, id: 0x0000:0x0000 (Unknown)
ac97_codec: AC97  codec, id: 0x0000:0x0000 (Unknown)
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
ACPI: APM is already active, exiting
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
Adding Swap: 200804k swap-space (priority -1)

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 630 Host (rev 11)
00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513
00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 80)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)
00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 07)
00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7018 (rev 01)
00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7013 (rev a0)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP
00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac51
00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac51
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8020
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 6300 (rev 11)

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           CPU0       
  0:     221157          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       7809          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  5:          0          XT-PIC  SiS 7018 PCI Audio
 12:       5720          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 14:      54450          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:          3          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0 
ERR:          0

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0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
0378-037a : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
1000-10ff : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator
  1000-10ff : SiS 7018 PCI Audio
1100-110f : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
  1100-1107 : ide0
  1108-110f : ide1
3000-30ff : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet
  3000-30ff : eth0
3200-32ff : PCI device 1039:7013 (Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS])
3300-337f : PCI device 1039:7013 (Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS])
a000-afff : PCI Bus #01
  a000-a07f : Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS630 GUI Accelerator+3D

Re: Problems with Linux 2.4.1

[Brad Douglas]

On 07 Feb 2001 02:27:57 +0000, Alexander Zvyagin wrote:

> 2) Frame-buffer mode does not work with my video card SiS630.
>    But ok, frame-buffer mode is EXPERIMENTAL in linux.
>    Computer boots, but screen is blank. All messages are fine.

> 01:00:0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]:
Unknown device 6300
> (rev 11)

Your particular chipset (actually, a 6300, which is different than the
630) is not supported by the SIS frame buffer.  If this chipset is a
VESA 2.0+ compatible controller, then you will be able to use the VESA
frame buffer.

Brad Douglas
brad@neuro.com
http://www.linux-fbdev.org


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Re: Problems with Linux 2.4.1

[Alan Cox]

> 2) Frame-buffer mode does not work with my video card SiS630.
>    But ok, frame-buffer mode is EXPERIMENTAL in linux.
>    Computer boots, but screen is blank. All messages are fine. 

You might want to try -ac that has specific rather than vesafb support
for the SIS framebuffers.

> 4) Sometimes computer hangs up. It does not happen too often
>    (it happend 2 times), but I am curious why? There is no OOPS, and log
>    files do not have any error messages... And I can not reproduce this
>    bug.

2.4.1 has plenty of bugs, and it seems a lot of them show up best on sis
hardware 8(
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Re: [BUG] 2.4.[01] lockups

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I am experiencing a problem with both 2.4.0 and 2.4.1. The problem is that
> at seemingly random times the console locks up. After the lockup I can no
> longer type and the mouse is frozen. As far as I can tell, other systems
> services are not affected, i.e. programs continue to run, music is being
> played, I/O is fine. It looks like _only_ the console devices are locked
> up.

Login via network or serial cable, and see if /proc/interrupts entry
for keyboard/mouse changes as you type. Attempt to blink keyboard leds
with setleds.
								Pavel

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Re: [BUG] 2.4.[01] lockups

[Ville Herva]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:02:19PM +0100, you [Pavel Machek] claimed:
> Hi!
> 
> > I am experiencing a problem with both 2.4.0 and 2.4.1. The problem is that
> > at seemingly random times the console locks up. After the lockup I can no
> > longer type and the mouse is frozen. As far as I can tell, other systems
> > services are not affected, i.e. programs continue to run, music is being
> > played, I/O is fine. It looks like _only_ the console devices are locked
> > up.
> 
> Login via network or serial cable, and see if /proc/interrupts entry
> for keyboard/mouse changes as you type. Attempt to blink keyboard leds
> with setleds.

Also, try killing gpm.


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Re: [BUG] 2.4.[01] lockups

[Ivan Borissov Ganev]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Login via network or serial cable, and see if /proc/interrupts entry
> for keyboard/mouse changes as you type. Attempt to blink keyboard leds
> with setleds.
> 								Pavel

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Ville Herva wrote:

> Also, try killing gpm.
> -- v --

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestions. Due to lack of a terminal or second computer
I've had no chance still to try the above suggestions. However, I have
tried many different versions of the 2.4.X series to no avail. I tried to
compile out APIC/IO-APIC stuff, I tried Alan's ac9 patches, etc.

However, I recently noticed that most times the console freezes when I am
doing a filename completion (which involves a beep when the completion is
not unique in KDE). I have changed the beep to be much shorter and with
much less annoying pitch from the KDE control panel.

I have found out that going in the control panel and just clicking the
"Test" button to test out the beep would freeze the console in less than
10-15 tries.

I got the sources for "kcontrol" and it seems the beeping is done from
some function of the keyboard driver, although I do not understand KDE
much and have no idea how to continue tracing the bug further.

Currently I have set the pitch to 0 Hz (no beeping) and have not had a
lockup yet. I will continue testing, however, if someone can give me a
suggestion how to go about tracing the code that actually does the
beeping (be it in KDE or the kernel) I'd be very grateful.

Cheers,
--Ivan

P.S. The relevant code from kdebase-2.0.1/kcontrol/bell/bell.cpp is:

void KBellConfig::ringBell()
{
  // store the old state
  XKeyboardState old_state;
  XGetKeyboardControl(kapp->getDisplay(), &old_state);

  // switch to the test state
  XKeyboardControl kbd;
  kbd.bell_percent = m_volume->value();
  kbd.bell_pitch = m_pitch->value();
  if (m_volume->value() > 0)
    kbd.bell_duration = m_duration->value();
  else
    kbd.bell_duration = 0;
  XChangeKeyboardControl(kapp->getDisplay(),
                         KBBellPercent | KBBellPitch | KBBellDuration,
                         &kbd);
  // ring bell
  XBell(kapp->getDisplay(),100);

  // restore old state
  kbd.bell_percent = old_state.bell_percent;
  kbd.bell_pitch = old_state.bell_pitch;
  kbd.bell_duration = old_state.bell_duration;
  XChangeKeyboardControl(kapp->getDisplay(),
                         KBBellPercent | KBBellPitch | KBBellDuration,
                         &kbd);
}




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