Re: Strange System Hang

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Has anything else changed since upgrading to RH 5.1?  Any hardware?

No hardware changes in the last 6 months.
> What kind of NIC do you have?

ISA Western Digital 8013 in shared memory mode,  same one I've been using with
this system since I built it.

> Do any networking services work after the problem starts?

All my xterms, and netscape session keep running and I can start more with it
seeming to have any problem.  Of course the fact that in.tftpd is hung
eventually causes applications to have problems loading fonts, etc...  (all
these apps run on X-terminal attached via ethernet)

> Does "top" show anything unusual?

I had top running last time it happened.  Everything looked normal.  No
swapping the CPU was mostly idle.

> Do you run the stock RH kernel, or a custom one?
>

Recompiled from the same source that came with 5.1.  I have to recompile it to
get it to find my sound card and Cyclades board.

> I'd guess you have an intermittant hardware problem that's getting worse.
> If you have any spare parts, you might want to start swapping out things.
> You also might want to start searching Dejanews to see if anyone has
> had and/or solved this problem.
>

Good idea.  Now I just have to figure out what to search for.

> Please let me know how you end up resolving this.  I'm curious now.



/proc $ cat /proc/interrupts
 0:    6434714   timer
 1:          2   keyboard
 2:          0   cascade
 5:    1876524 + serial
 9:    2215926   WD8013
10:    1366628   sound blaster
11:          2 + cyclades
13:          1   math error
14:      68670 + ide0
15:      26795 + ide1

/proc $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : 586
model           : Pentium 75+
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
stepping        : 12
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : yes
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid           : yes
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips        : 79.26

/proc $ cat dma
 0: Sound Blaster8
 4: cascade
 5: Sound Blaster16

APM BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.2)
    Entry f000:82be cseg16 f000 dseg fdfc cseg len eff5, dseg len 0
    Connection version 1.1
    AC on line, battery status unknown, battery life unknown
    battery flag 0x80, battery life unknown
Sound initialization started
<Sound Blaster 16 (4.5)> at 0x220 irq 10 dma 0,5
Installed 0
<Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 10 dma 0
Sound initialization complete
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
hda: Maxtor 82625 A6, 2510MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=5101/16/63, DMA
hdb: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA
hdc: CD-ROM CDU55E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: Conner Peripherals 420MB - CFS420A, 406MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=826/16/63
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
raid1 personality registered
raid5 personality registered
PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
PPP line discipline registered.
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California.
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
eth0: WD80x3 at 0x240,  00 C0 A8 36 0A A9 assigning address 0xd0000 WD8013, IRQ
9, shared memory at 0xd0000-0xd3fff.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
 hdd: hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 33228k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 33228k swap-space (priority -2)