James Wilkinson wrote:
John Hodges wrote:
I've just started using Linux in the last week or so. I got FC2 up and running without any problems, uptime of about 5 days or so, then I get home from work and my keyboard is not responding. My first instinct was to reboot
Kenneth Porter replied:
How are you rebooting? If from a shell over the network, are there any messages in the log files (eg. /var/log/messages) that might suggest something failing?
John posted:
I logged out of GNOME using GUI interface, since mouse worked and keyboard didn't. Rebooted the machine from GUI login screen for same reason.
/var/log/messages contains the following entries
Sep 21 19:49:24 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 00(60) Sep 21 19:49:24 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) Sep 21 20:13:57 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) Sep 21 20:20:40 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) Sep 21 20:23:53 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) Sep 21 22:00:37 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 60(60) Sep 22 04:02:03 localhost logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]
Try adding " noapic" to the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf
Are your mouse and keyboard PS/2 or USB?
PS/2 both
What does /proc/interrupts show? (It would be interesting to see a "before and after" for the noapic change.
Before: CPU0 CPU1 0: 226311 190074 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 149 438 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 4934 5240 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 9894 2502 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 1160 126 IO-APIC-edge ide1 169: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd 177: 0 0 IO-APIC-level Intel ICH5 185: 12927 11089 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, radeon@PCI:1:0:0 193: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd 201: 60 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd, eth0 209: 12918 13859 IO-APIC-level CS46XX 225: 0 0 IO-APIC-level SysKonnect SK-98xx NMI: 0 0 LOC: 416281 416194 ERR: 0 MIS: 0
After:
CPU0 CPU1
0: 118186 0 XT-PIC timer
1: 119 0 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 2571 0 XT-PIC uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, CS46XX
8: 1 0 XT-PIC rtc
9: 0 0 XT-PIC acpi
10: 6104 0 XT-PIC uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd, radeon@PCI:1:0:0
11: 7 0 XT-PIC ehci_hcd, SysKonnect SK-98xx, eth0
12: 3566 0 XT-PIC i8042
14: 9236 0 XT-PIC ide0
15: 947 0 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 118089 118174
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
