Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > Have you also tried the latest redhat kernel like > kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-5.i686.rpm ? > It would be nice to know if redhat has a fix. > > -- Bjarne
I can try it. I'll let you know what happens > > On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 23:57, Brad Felmey wrote: > >>On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 13:22, Bryan Whitehead wrote: >> >> >>>Testing one of our 2GB Dual-Pentium III (1ghz) machines we get a hard >>>lock with kernel enterprise. >>>kernel-enterprise-2.4.19.9mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm >>> >>>The lock up seems to be related to the scsi driver. aic7xxx. The last >>>message that is echoed to the syslog consol is: >>>kernel: (scsi0:A:0:0): Locking max tag count at 64 >>> >>>after that the machine is dead. No ping, but keyboard works enough for >>>Alt-SysRq stuff. Only problem is Alt-SysRq keys won't work. :( syncing >>>the disk results in the machine "trying" (It starts to sync the disk) >>>but will never finish, there is no HD activity. Then the keyboard will >>>not respond anymore. >>> >>>Trying to get a process list, or memory stats will finish off the lock >>>also. (as in it will become so useless that reset button is only thing >>>working). >>> >>>If my first sysrq key is to reboot it will. >>> >>>I ran memtest yesterday and all memory is ok. Mandrake 8.1 has no >>>problems on this machine. >>> >>>Heavy disk activity triggers the lock, like installing an RPM. :) >>> >>>It will always hard lock when installing the "FlashPlayer-5.0-8mdk" RPM. >>> >>>any suggestions? or specific sysrq keys you'd like me to try in locked >>>up state? (there is no oops or anything like that on the consol window) >> >>I have a dual-1GHz PIII Coppermine system with 2GB on a Supermicro >>Serverworks board and Adaptec 3200S that has this exact problem. Only >>with highmem/kernel-enterprise after 2.4.8. RPM will kill the box >>exactly as you've described. I've had to retrograde the box and stay >>away from current kernels. >>-- >>Brad Felmey >> >> > > > -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
