Greetings everyone,
I've got a problem with my fileserver running CentOS 3.1. The kernel seems to crash about once a day (inevitably when I'm not present), forcing me to reboot. This behavior started after I applied the new kernel patch (2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.c0).
I've left it on 2.4.21-15.0.2 for a little bit to see if it will crash tonight/tomorrow. As this may be a hardware problem, I'm reluctant to put it into bugzilla until I can pin it on something.
The server has an A-Bit KR7A motherboard with an Athlon XP 1700+, 1.5 GB of RAM, 4 120 GB ATA-100 hard drives mirrored in two sets (hence I only have 240 GB available), a Cirrus Logic GD 5430 video card, and an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100.
There is nothing useful in /var/log/messages and the only reason I know when it crashes is due to my fetchmail log.
Has anyone else seen anything like this? Did I patch too soon?
Any suggestions on where I might look for info on why it's crashing? The screen's blank and the keyboard lights are flashing.
Thanks in advance,
Shawn M. Jones
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:51:14PM -0400, Shawn M. Jones wrote:
Greetings everyone,
I've got a problem with my fileserver running CentOS 3.1. The kernel seems to crash about once a day (inevitably when I'm not present), forcing me to reboot. This behavior started after I applied the new kernel patch (2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.c0).
I've left it on 2.4.21-15.0.2 for a little bit to see if it will crash tonight/tomorrow. As this may be a hardware problem, I'm reluctant to put it into bugzilla until I can pin it on something.
<SNIP>
Update:
The machine has been running 2.4.21-15.0.2 since yesterday and hasn't crashed yet. I see nothing wrong so far. As there is no indication of hardware problems, I'm thinking something is hokie with the 15.0.3 kernel.
Seeing the Linux kernel crash is not a familiar experience. I've only seen it crash from hardware failure or really bad proprietary modules (drivers).
Thoughts? Comments?
--Shawn
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:33, smj@littleprojects.org wrote:
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:51:14PM -0400, Shawn M. Jones wrote:
Greetings everyone,
I've got a problem with my fileserver running CentOS 3.1. The kernel seems to crash about once a day (inevitably when I'm not present), forcing me to reboot. This behavior started after I applied the new kernel patch (2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.c0).
I've left it on 2.4.21-15.0.2 for a little bit to see if it will crash tonight/tomorrow. As this may be a hardware problem, I'm reluctant to put it into bugzilla until I can pin it on something.
<SNIP>
Update:
The machine has been running 2.4.21-15.0.2 since yesterday and hasn't crashed yet. I see nothing wrong so far. As there is no indication of hardware problems, I'm thinking something is hokie with the 15.0.3 kernel.
Seeing the Linux kernel crash is not a familiar experience. I've only seen it crash from hardware failure or really bad proprietary modules (drivers).
Thoughts? Comments?
I have been running 2.4.21-15.0.3 since 7/5/04 on 4 machines (on continuously) with no problems at all...including my main firewall/webserver/mailserver machine at home.
Johnny Hughes HughesJR.com
Hrm, perhaps scanning the change log from redhat would be wise? Or if there is any way to view the RHEL bugzilla perhaps others have had the same issue ? Have you perhaps tried the unsupported kernel?
Also, anything strange in dmesg when it boots up to the problematic kernel ?
Beau Henderson wrote:
Hrm, perhaps scanning the change log from redhat would be wise? Or if there is any way to view the RHEL bugzilla perhaps others have had the same issue ? Have you perhaps tried the unsupported kernel?
Also, anything strange in dmesg when it boots up to the problematic kernel ?
While I was setting up a new Dell rackmount flatscreen/keyboard drawer, I realized that the existing video card (an ancient Cirrus Logic card) was not up to powering the monitor at any resolution higher than 640x480, so I replaced it with an S3Virge.
Guess what? No more crashes with kernel 2.4.21-15.0.3!
I was afraid it was a hardware problem. Sorry for reporting something that appears to be just crappy hardware on the fritz. I guess something in the 2.4.21-15.0.3 patch made it act up.
All I can think is that the device drivers that were patched in 2.4.21-15.0.2 combined with the nfs code patched in 2.4.21-15.0.3 had something to do with hanging the kernel.
Thanks to everyone for the replies, sorry for raising the alarm.
Sincerely,
Shawn M. Jones
BTW...i get the same problem on my system with that kernel...yet the old one works.
DP
Shawn M. Jones wrote:
Beau Henderson wrote:
Hrm, perhaps scanning the change log from redhat would be wise? Or if there is any way to view the RHEL bugzilla perhaps others have had the same issue ? Have you perhaps tried the unsupported kernel?
Also, anything strange in dmesg when it boots up to the problematic kernel ?
While I was setting up a new Dell rackmount flatscreen/keyboard drawer, I realized that the existing video card (an ancient Cirrus Logic card) was not up to powering the monitor at any resolution higher than 640x480, so I replaced it with an S3Virge.
Guess what? No more crashes with kernel 2.4.21-15.0.3!
I was afraid it was a hardware problem. Sorry for reporting something that appears to be just crappy hardware on the fritz. I guess something in the 2.4.21-15.0.3 patch made it act up.
All I can think is that the device drivers that were patched in 2.4.21-15.0.2 combined with the nfs code patched in 2.4.21-15.0.3 had something to do with hanging the kernel.
Thanks to everyone for the replies, sorry for raising the alarm.
Sincerely,
Shawn M. Jones _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@caosity.org http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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