On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 09:20 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Now, this is one we have an issue with: it's got a bttv card, and motion > running on it. It's a Dell PE R720. For some reason, it has never liked > the card: 20 min after reboot, it says fatal bus error... but nothing's > wrong, and it runs just fine. Well, expect that we need to keep it on the > 2.6.32-431.20.3 kernel, because *everything* later, it randomly starts > rebooting, several times a day. > > But we've never had anything like this, and I've never seen anything like > this: the bttv module was throwing a ton of IRQ lockup errors. Restarting > motion didn't help. So I was wondering if the issue was with the bttv > kernel module, so I rmmoded that, then modprobe bttv... and that was all > she wrote. The system lost network connectivity. > > Ok, I go over to the rack, and plug in the monitor-on-a-stick, and that's > where it got very strange, and I've never seen anything like this: I turn > up the monitor... and see it announcing it had seen a new USB device (the > keyboard)... and no login, it kept printing > copying data [<percentage done>%] > When it hit 100%, it rebooted. > > So - has anyone ever seen this behavior? Anyone have an idea what it was > copying? > > mark > Hi, What is the make/model of the card? Are you supplying options when loading the bttv module? Regards Phil -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20160323/afa13284/attachment-0005.sig>