On January 10, 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matthew is not alone with this problem. I have it too. Its not new > > here. Its been happening as long as I have had gentoo amd64 > > installed. It can be hard to reproduce but eventually, when 32 bit > > apps are used, my box bricks. There is nothing in the logs (nor on a > > serial console) - the box just freezes. > > > > My kernel is _not_ tainted. [...] > > ok, good. A series of questions: > > - can you reproduce it from the VGA console?
No - though I do have a serial console to see logs. > - if yes, does booting with "nmi_watchdog=2 idle=poll" give you a > working NMI watchdog? (working NMI watchdog means the NMI counts > increase for all cores in /proc/interrupts). booting with the above gives me an incrementing NMI counter in /proc/interrupts > if still 'yes', then try to reproduce the hard hang on the VGA text > console - do you perhaps get an NMI backtrace printed within 1-2 minutes > after the hard hang happens? If yes then take a photo of that or write > it down. I am booted with the NMI watchdog and serial consoles active running apps that eventually will trigger a hang... Ed Tomlinson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
