Ralph Jones wrote:
> I seem to have an instance of the Fedora Core 2 "screaming interrupt"
> problem, although it isn't acting precisely as others have described it.
>
> My FC2 box is on a small network with several Windows boxes, where it
> serves as a Samba data/backup server. It runs normally, except that
> whenever I logout of an X session (under any username), it disables
> interrupt 11 and takes down the network card. Logging back in (as the same
> or another user) does not make it recover; the only thing that will restore
> network function is a reboot. The messages file contains:
>
> Aug 15 09:43:51 heloise gdm(pam_unix)[2908]: session closed for user root
> Aug 15 09:43:51 heloise gconfd (root-3058): Exiting
> Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: irq 11: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
> Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: irq 11: Please try booting with acpi=off
> and report a bug
> Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
> Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: handlers:
> Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: [<128be97c>] (tulip_interrupt+0x0/0x774
> [tulip])
> Aug 15 09:43:53 heloise kernel: Disabling IRQ #11
...
Most odd.
Can you try a different network card?
How is your /etc/hosts set up: does heloise point to 127.0.0.1 or somewhere else?
James.
Yes, heloise points to 127.0.0.1...the system was OK under RH7, but I have another card I can try. Thanks...
rj
