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On 2/14/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Ivan Lucian Aron wrote: |
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> > Lately since my fresh gentoo install, i've been having a lot of |
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> > problems with the kernel locking up at random. |
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> > It's not a hard lockup, or a panic crash, it just stops running new |
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> > processes, i get a lot of defuncts.. and dosn't let new users log in |
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> > at all, sudo/su-ing either. |
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> > I've checked everything, even recompiled the kernel few times, |
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> > including/excluding genkernel. Tried disabling APIC by passing |
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> > noapic. Nothing seems to work. |
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> > I'm running it on a AMD 64 Dual-Core 3800+, Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Mobo, |
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> > 4 modules of Kingston Hardcore 3 512MB. |
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> > NVIDIA 7800 GTX Vidoe Card/ with lastest nvidia-drivers |
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> > (Oh and I ran memcheck for 12 hours, nothing came up) |
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> > Basicly I tried everything and nothing worked.. and it appears tu run |
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> > great on the livecd kernel.. and crashes at genkernel or a manually |
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> > compiled kernel. |
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> Nothing in the .config seems to jump out and bite me, so a few questions |
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> for more background: |
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> Which kernel version? |
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Kernel version is 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 |
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Full UName: |
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Linux nophinity 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 #2 SMP Sat Feb 10 15:32:52 EET 2007 x86_64 |
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AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux |
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Is this a new machine, or a new install on an old machine that used to |
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> work fine? |
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Its a new install on an old box.. sorry but I don't have the last config |
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file:( |
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If it's the second, what was the last known good kernel that ran? |
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> I'd like to see a 'diff -u' between the current config and the last |
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> known good one |
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> alan |
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> -- |
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> Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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> Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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> Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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> +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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> -- |
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