[Originally posted to debian-user where there weren't any replies. More details of hardware etc can be supplied if requested. Please Cc replies to me.]
I have a machine that was running Etch (and using the 2.6.18-k7 kernel) for the entire release. It had uptimes over 100 days a few times during that period. I recently updated it to Lenny and not too long after rebooting it I saw kernel messages talking about how noone cared about IRQ 21 interrupts and to turn on irqpoll. (IRQ 21 was attached to my USB devices and they weren't working so I had to reboot at this stage.) When I boot with irqpoll, the machine crashes after some time. Basically it becomes fully unresponsive - not driving video, the numlock key doesn't work on the keyboard any more, etc. I booted it back into Etch's 2.6.18 (accidently with irqpoll) and it died this horrible death again. I took irqpoll off the kernel arguments and now the machine has been up and stable for several days. Any thoughts about this? Is the new need for irqpoll a kernel bug or is it exposing an underlying hardware problem? If it's the latter why is this hardware so stable running 2.6.18? Thoughts appreciated. Thanks, Dale -- Dale E. Martin - d...@the-martins.org http://the-martins.org/~dmartin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
