[clug] Debugging system lockups

[Rohan Mitchell]

Hi,
This sounds exactly like the problem i'm having (I have an abit nf7-s, 
which uses nforce2). I had noapic and apic=off in the append line for 
lilo, but not nolapic. I'll give it a try over the next few days and let 
you know.

Thanks,
Rohan

PS. Cody, i had checked cpu and case temps, and it didnt seem to be 
related. Under load the cpu would go to around 50, while it was usually 
in the mid-40s when it crashed.

David Tulloh wrote:

> Rohan Mitchell wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> For the last few months, i've been having occasional (maybe once 
>> every day or 2) system lockups on my main system, which runs debian 
>> testing on kernel 2.6.3. Numlock wont respond, nor will ctrl-alt-f1 
>> or magic sysrq key. No messages are left in /var/log/syslog or 
>> /var/log/message. It seems to happen more frequently when playing 
>> sound or video, but i'm not certain of this.
>> What would everyone suggest to debug this problem?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Rohan
>>
>
> This shounds like a problem I encountered between the nforce 2 
> motherboards and the 2.6 kernels.  Basically there is something wrong 
> at the io level, causing random lockups.  I found the problem was 
> worse when I played music but particularily video due to the increased 
> io load.
>
> The fix is to add the kernel option nolapic to the kernel line, simply 
> not selecting the option in the configuration stage doesn't seem to be 
> enough.
>
> Hope this helps,
> David
>