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Re: [PLUG] Mysterious system freeze
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I had a similar problem with a server I use to work on. I eventually
tracked it down to a problem with one of the device modules and SMP
support. I recompiled the kernel without SMP and the problem went away.
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On the 13th day of April in the year 2003 you wrote:
> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:13:46 -0400
> From: "eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>
> To: PLUG <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
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> Subject: [PLUG] Mysterious system freeze
>
> Occasionally in the past three months, my primary Linux workstation
> (sol), will, for no apparent reason, stop functioning.
>
> It would stop responding to commands, not start new logins, xterms, or
> shells and eventually I would have to press the reset button or power
> off. It might do this once every two weeks or so (quite infrequently).
>
> Friday, it went one step further and simply "froze" No mouse movement,
> no keyboard input - cannot even switch to a VC. I tried to ssh to the
> workstation from another computer to look at the logs but there was no
> reponse. It would not even respond to a "ping".
>
> Dmesg appears to only hold current information. The (I hope) relevant
> portion of /var/log/messages is at the bottom of this message. Note
> the odd time shift (syslogd restarts 37 minutes BEFORE the prevous
> crontab entry :-P )
>
> One thing I do notice is that in the reboot process the reiser fsck
> finds a number of things to correct:
>
> > clm-6006: writing inode 7644 on readonly FS
> > clm-6006: writing inode 7644 on readonly FS
> > clm-6006: writing inode 7644 on readonly FS
> > clm-6006: writing inode 7644 on readonly FS
> > clm-6006: writing inode 7644 on readonly FS
> etc. (about 300+ times).
>
> (This is also visible in the /var/log/messages snippet below.)
>
> I don't know if that is a problem, or the result of the problem.
>
> The system is SuSE 7.3 with some upgrades from Yast Online Update. It's
> a 800 MHz Athlon system with 256 Meg RAM. It runs on a three year old
> Fujitsu 18 GB SCSI hard drive divided up like this (in relevant part):
>
> [eric@sol eric]$ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6 5.6G 4.4G 1.2G 78% /
> /dev/sda2 23M 3.9M 17M 18% /boot
> /dev/sda7 5.5G 3.1G 2.1G 59% /home
> shmfs 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm
>
> Any help/suggestions/hints are appreciated.
>
> Eric
>
>
> --------------- portion of /var/log/messages follows --------------
> Apr 11 21:41:47 sol PAM-unix2[9477]: session started for user eric, service xdm
> Apr 11 21:50:00 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[12698]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
> Apr 11 21:59:00 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[12710]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
> Apr 11 22:00:00 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[12715]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
> Apr 11 22:10:00 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[12758]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
> Apr 11 22:20:01 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[12816]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
> Apr 11 22:30:00 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[12876]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
> Apr 11 22:40:00 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[12938]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
> Apr 11 22:03:06 sol syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Apr 11 22:03:09 sol webmin[343]: Webmin starting
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.10-4GB
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: Loaded 11709 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.10-4GB.
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.10.
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: Loaded 439 symbols from 13 modules.
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: g inode 7644 on readonly FS
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: clm-6006: writing inode 7644 on readonly FS
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol last message repeated 234 times
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: clm-6005: writing inode 7644 on readonly FS
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: clm-6006: writing inode 7644 on readonly FS
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol last message repeated 110 times
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: clm-6005: writing inode 7644 on readonly FS
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: ip_tables: (c)2000 Netfilter core team
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: ip_conntrack (2047 buckets, 16376 max)
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: 00:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xdc00. Vers LK1.1.16
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
> Apr 11 22:03:11 sol kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> Apr 11 22:03:16 sol kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> Apr 11 22:03:41 sol /usr/sbin/cron[778]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
> Apr 11 22:03:45 sol kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
> Apr 11 22:03:45 sol kernel: isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00
> Apr 11 22:03:45 sol kernel: isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
> Apr 11 22:03:45 sol kernel: isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP'
> Apr 11 22:03:45 sol kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
> Apr 11 22:03:50 sol kernel: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0-3123 Tue Aug 27 15:56:48 PDT 2002
> Apr 11 22:03:51 sol kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> Apr 11 22:03:51 sol kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
> Apr 11 22:03:51 sol kernel: agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT133 chipset
> Apr 11 22:03:51 sol kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
> Apr 11 22:03:51 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: VIA Apollo KT133 chipset
> Apr 11 22:03:51 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture: 64M @ 0xd0000000
> Apr 11 22:03:51 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture mapped from 0xd0000000 to 0xd3adf000
> Apr 11 22:03:51 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: mode 2x
> Apr 11 22:03:51 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 16 pages
> Apr 11 22:03:56 sol kernel: Switching off penguin.
> Apr 11 22:08:33 sol kdm[906]: Abnormal helper termination, code 1, signal 0
> Apr 11 22:08:33 sol kdm[906]: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe)
> Apr 11 22:08:33 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 16 pages
> Apr 11 22:08:33 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend released
> Apr 11 22:08:34 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: VIA Apollo KT133 chipset
> Apr 11 22:08:34 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture: 64M @ 0xd0000000
> Apr 11 22:08:34 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture mapped from 0xd0000000 to 0xd3adf000
> Apr 11 22:08:34 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: mode 2x
> Apr 11 22:08:34 sol kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 16 pages
> Apr 11 22:10:00 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[1054]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
> Apr 11 22:20:00 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[1085]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
> Apr 11 22:30:00 sol /USR/SBIN/CRON[1093]: (root) CMD ( /usr/lib/sa/sa1 )
>
>
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