On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 16:06 -0800, RoboticGolem wrote: > Ok. So when the system locks up and the Scroll Lock and Caps Lock are > flashing, that means a kernel panic right? How to I track down whats > causing this? Any ideas? It only does it in X and I dont know the > first thing about debugging software. > > _Matt I'm seeing precisely the same problem. It started with FC3 (didn't have this problem with FC{1,2}). Details: Dell 530n workstation, 2x2GZ Xeon, 1GB memory, On board scsi, adaptec 29160 card, two scsi drives (hosting FC3), one IDE (hosting RH9), a DDS4 scsi tape drive, nVidia GeForce 2 MX. I'm *not* using nVidia's kernel driver, just the nv userland driver. I only see the problem when both processors are running (678 smp, 681 smp). Disable the second processor or run the uniprocessor kernel, and I have no problems. I observed the following in /var/log/messages just before the hang in every instance: Nov 22 19:53:15 fubar netplugd[2355]: eth0: state ACTIVE flags 0x00001043 UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST -> 0x00001003 UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST Nov 22 19:53:15 fubar netplugd[4765]: /etc/netplug.d/netplug eth0 out -> pid 4765 Nov 22 19:53:15 fubar netplugd[2355]: eth0: state OUTING flags 0x00001003 UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST -> 0x00001002 BROADCAST,MULTICAST Nov 22 19:53:15 fubar netplugd[2355]: eth0: state DOWNANDOUT pid 4765 exited status 0 Nov 22 19:53:15 fubar netplugd[4808]: /etc/netplug.d/netplug eth0 probe -> pid 4808 Nov 22 19:53:15 fubar netplugd[2355]: eth0: state PROBING flags 0x00001002 BROADCAST,MULTICAST -> 0x00001043 UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST Nov 22 19:53:15 lucy-01 netplugd[2355]: eth0: state PROBING_UP pid 4808 exited status 0 Nov 22 19:53:15 fubar netplugd[4809]: /etc/netplug.d/netplug eth0 in -> pid 4809 The above netplugd output doesn't happen when running single processor. When the hang occurs, I've tried to ssh into the box to no avail, and ctrl-alt-bspace doesn't break out of X. Pinging the box doesn't work either. Any suggestions for me to use in further narrowing this down? Thanks.
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