Re: System Lockups

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 08:27 23-12-2002 -0600, Matt Schillinger wrote:
>Just wondering if anyone knows of any reason why a xfs redhat 8.0 would
>just lock up, and leave no log traces in the messages file.. I do not
>really have any data that says that it is XFS related (in fact I doubt
>it). I am just not sure where to go for answers.. I've looked on the web
>and never found anything relevant. From what I can gather, the machine
>dies on its network connection,  and all keyboard activity locks up.
>The screen continues to display the last thing that occured before the
>lockup, but there is no additional input/output. From what I can tell,
>it has only happened in periods of inactivity (this is a new development
>machine).

Does it have a broadcom gigabit card (bcm5700). If so try either the 1.2 
tg3 driver from Jeff Garzik or switch to the bcm5700 which is already 
available on your machine.

It's a known problem and 2.4.18-19 is supposed to fix this. But there is no 
XFS kernel from that errata release yet.

Cheers

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Seth
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