re[2]: Troubleshooting?

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com>]

 >>  On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:01:21 -0500, 
 >>  Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com> wrote:
 >>  >I've just installed the xfs 1.2pre3 kernel on my test server.
 >>  >In the 3 hours I've had it installed, I've had 3 lockups.
 >>  >When these occur I do NOT get an OOPS nor do I get kicked into KDB.

 >>  Boot with nmi_watchdog=1 (SMP) or nmi_watchdog=2 (UP).  5 seconds after
 >>  the hang it should spit out some trace data, run that through ksymoops.
 >>  If your kernel has kdb (/proc/sys/kernel/kdb contains 1) then the nmi
 >>  watchdog will drop into kdb.

Keith,

Thanks a lot for that.  I have installed kdb and am getting the same problem, but I have not tried the above yet.

I don't think it is XFS related at this point, because it happens even if I am only exercising an ext3 FS.

This server must be incompatible with a vanilla 2.4.19 kernel.  It has worked well in the past with SuSE patched kernels.

Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5
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