Here is what I have found so far. I was able to generate an error on the console of the workstation that was freezing:
Call Trace: [<c010c038>] wait_on_irq [kernel] 0xf8 (0xf590feac) There was more but I thought this was most interesting. What I have done on the machine that is freezing is turn off irqbalance and it doesn't freeze but it is slow and every time I move the mouse it takes a moment to wake up. The kernel I am booting is 2.4.20-20.9smp, I tried booting the 2.4.20-20.9 with the irqbalance off and all appeared ok. What is systemimager potentially doing with the irq's? The machine that is the golden client is booting the 2.4.20-20.9smp kernel with irqbalance on and it doesn't exibit any of this behavior. Again the hardware is essentially identical. -Richard On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 09:25, Richard N. Cleary wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 13:52, dann frazier wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 03:03:11PM -0600, Richard N. Cleary wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Today I installed RedHat 9.0 with the latest errata on an HP > > > XW8000 workstation without any problems. I then pushed the custom image > > > up to the systemimager server. After generating the golden client I > > > began to test the golden image by imaging numerous XW8000 machines. The > > > imaging process appears to work alright but when I log in almost > > > immediately the workstation freezes. I don't notice this behavior on the > > > golden client. The freezing that I am noticing is happening in run > > > level 1, 3 and 5 so that rules out problems with Xwindows or potentially > > > network. When I place an image of RedHat 7.3 back on the questionable > > > machine using systemimager, all appears well. That tells me that the > > > hardware (network drop, system board, disks, cpus) are fine and in > > > working order. > > > > i've never heard of this problem. are you doing some kind of network > > authentication? how is the network configured on each machine? is > > it possible they're all coming up w/ the same ip address? can you ping/ssh > > to these machines? > > I have verified all that all of the network settings are correct and > for the newly imaged machine. I can ping the machine when it is frozen > but I am unable to ssh to it. I can't do a ctrl+alt+f1 either to break > into one of the virtual termainals. I even shut off the golden client to > ensure that only that machine was on in case there was duplicate network > information, but the machine still froze. We are using NIS to > authenticate. > > > > One other piece of information that I have is I took the machine > > > that was the golden image source and I reimaged it from the systemimager > > > server and I don't get the freezing that I see on other Xw8000 machines. > > > The Xw8000 machines that we are rolling out are identical in hardware > > > setup. Does systemimager store anything specific about the machine that > > > would cause these lockups? > > nope. > > > I took the machine that was freezing and installed RedHat 9.0 on it > from disks, installed the latest erratta with apt-get, upgraded the > video driver, installed systemimager 3.0 and ran getimage on the server > for the newly installed machine. I then imaged the machine that > previously was the golden client, not freezing up, with the new image > and that machine began hanging. So it does appear to be something with > systemimager, but I can't put my finger on it. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users -- Richard N. Cleary Sandia National Laboratories Dept. 9324 Infrastructure Computing Systems Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: 505.845.7836 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
