-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dale E. Martin schrieb: > [Originally posted to debian-user where there weren't any replies. More > details of hardware etc can be supplied if requested. Please Cc replies to > me.] > > I have a machine that was running Etch (and using the 2.6.18-k7 kernel) for > the entire release. It had uptimes over 100 days a few times during that > period. > > I recently updated it to Lenny and not too long after rebooting it I saw > kernel messages talking about how noone cared about IRQ 21 interrupts and > to turn on irqpoll. (IRQ 21 was attached to my USB devices and they > weren't working so I had to reboot at this stage.) > > When I boot with irqpoll, the machine crashes after some time. Basically > it becomes fully unresponsive - not driving video, the numlock key doesn't > work on the keyboard any more, etc. > > I booted it back into Etch's 2.6.18 (accidently with irqpoll) and it died > this horrible death again. I took irqpoll off the kernel arguments and now > the machine has been up and stable for several days. > > Any thoughts about this? Is the new need for irqpoll a kernel bug or is it > exposing an underlying hardware problem? If it's the latter why is this > hardware so stable running 2.6.18? > > Thoughts appreciated. >
Hello, can you also try boot the option 'noapic' or 'acpi=off'? The output of 'lspci' and 'dmesg' could be usefully. Nice greetings, Harald - -- Harald Krammer Brucknerstrasse 33 A - 4020 Linz AUSTRIA Mobil +43.(0) 664. 130 59 58 Mail: Harald.Krammer (at) hkr.at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREIAAYFAkmu6EsACgkQ9QlAsubHO9vxAgCgjGRyPdOmQW3pHKCGC4EAHlg3 bGcAoOEtIwFdTM1+ZpVMdcPNOAubNe7C =87H1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
