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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: thockin@hockin.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What are the general causes of frozen system?
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:01:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <438A8F0F.2080205@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051127031115.GA31651@hockin.org>

thockin@hockin.org wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:05:37PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> 
>>>Look for lock-related deadlocks.  Try turning on the nmi watchdog
>>
>>Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, adding either 
>>nmi_watchdog=1 or 2 makes my machine lockup in booting - just after ACPI 
>>is initialized.
> 
> 
> Try with acpi=off, too?
> 

It turned out that an 'lacpi' was causing the boot lockup. I tried all 
combinations of acpi on/off and nmi_watchdog 1/2 without any success. 
The NMI count in /proc/interrupts remains stuck at 0.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-28  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-27  2:44 Larry Finger
2005-11-27  2:52 ` thockin
2005-11-27  3:05   ` Larry Finger
     [not found]     ` <20051127031115.GA31651@hockin.org>
2005-11-28  5:01       ` Larry Finger [this message]
2005-11-27 10:59 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-27 21:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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