Hmm.. I thought I was the only one getting APIC errors ;-). It's good to know that I'm not alone :), though hopefully there's some way to fix it unless if it's a normal sporadic condition that's handled properly..
Is there a way to tell the system logger to omit the APIC errors? Recompiling the latest kernel just to remove the APIC error message is inconvenient :-(. If so, would it be possible to put such a fix into a package in Cooker, like remove_annoying_apic_error_messages-1.0mdk.noarch.rpm ;-)? It froze again this morning, and I spent three hours troubleshooting various things before my system would boot again. I didn't see any residue around the capacitors, so hopefully those are still working.. I should slap myself silly because I noticed that the fan intake on the back of the system was completely clogged with a layer of dust (my power supply draws in air to blow onto the two CPUs and their fans). The area around the CPUs was _very_ hot when I opened the case! The hours that I spent were related to cleaning and re-seating the CPUs, and it wouldn't boot until I re-seated the SIMMs (system showing its age..). Good thing the cats woke me up early this morning.. I tend to blame software without looking much at hardware, but I think my recent rash of crashes were caused by overheating :-(. Hopefully no permanent damage was done.. I hope I haven't wasted anyone's time, especially since it's a little off-topic, thought the electrolytic capacitor issues were completely new to me :-). (I didn't know that they had a limited lifetime..) I'm still going to see if I can put a debugger in the kernel somehow.. Hopefully it might be possible to reduce or eliminate APIC errors if it's feasible.. On Friday 09 November 2001 01:34 am, you wrote: > On Fridayen den 9 November 2001 09.17, svetljo wrote: > > Hm I'm haveing it happily , no problems already ~2 years, > > it's true that ( since 2.4.x ) syslog is full of tousend and tousend of > > lines > > APIC error on CPU0 > > APIC error on CPU1 > > the lst message repeated two times > > Yes, I have those too, but never any hangs, it's rock solid as I do not run > it overclocked. -- --Steven Lawrance-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
