Re: 2.6.23-rc4, now on third reboot

["Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

Hi Gene,

On 29/08/2007, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> About 8 hours uptime, firefox/kmail & a bunch of tails running on logs, an
> amanda session running in the background, reading groklaw with FF.  click,
> blank screen, reboot, nothing in the logs.
>
> 10 minutes later, everything locks up about 2 minutes after I start an amflush
> session to cleanup after the last crash.  The log, according to the tail I
> had running on it at the time of the freeze, has this, and it just crashed &
> self rebooted again, so I'm back on -rc3:
> ==========
> Aug 29 01:06:52 coyote kernel: hdd: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61
> ==========
>
> The 2nd time I go into bios and reset some things to default.
>
> The third time I rebooted to 2.6.23-rc3, which had been running stable for 15
> days worth of uptime.
>
> On the 2nd crash, the kpanel clock was frozen, no response from any key
> combo.
>
> Third time, just a click and a black screen as it posted again.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this or do I have hardware on the way out?
>
> Now, lets see if I can cleanup the spillage from amanda.  And it reset again.
>
> This time I turned the VCore 1 voltage down about .05 volts in the bios, to
> around 1.62 volts.  Just for effects, like a little rum in the morning
> coffee.  Its an athlon XP-2800 that has always run a little warm, showing
> 145F now, but has hit 161F a couple times with no ill effects that I know of.

Please try to capture this bug. Net or serial console would be useful.

Chapter 3 "Collecting kernel messages"
http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en-0.3-rc1.pdf

Regards,
Michal

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