Re: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-10-14 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 13 October 2014, Gary Artim sent: > memtest is a util that was, in the past, included on the boot screen. > I think its been dropped but can be yum installed. check for it with I don't ever recall seeing it installed by default. I've always had to manually install it, on a

Re: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-10-13 Thread Gary Artim
memtest is a util that was, in the past, included on the boot screen. I think its been dropped but can be yum installed. check for it with yum search memtest it will test your memory out for any faulty locations by move data patters in and out of all mem locations... another possibility, but a p

Re: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-10-13 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi Gary, Thanks! I also have updated my BIOS (as mentioned in a subsequent post) but I have continued to have frequent error messages and lockups even with the mainline vanilla kernel. I have filed bug reports on both kernel.org and fedora -- hopefully it will be fixed soon. Btw, what does run

Re: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-10-13 Thread Gary Artim
I've had similar error messages and hang of the system (unresponsive, but powered on). I would check if there is any firmware upgrade you could apply to the motherboard and also run memtest for 24 hours. I recently did flash my motherboard and haven't had a hang since, but its a server/raid and the

addl info: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-09-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:17:40 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have been having this issue sometimes (not always but quite > frequently) upon wakeup from hibernate for the past few days (on a > newly installed notebook) which is a Dell Precision M3800. > > I get the following message on my

F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

2014-09-24 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have been having this issue sometimes (not always but quite frequently) upon wakeup from hibernate for the past few days (on a newly installed notebook) which is a Dell Precision M3800. I get the following message on my consoles: Message from syslogd@ kernel:BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1