Re: Weird lockups

[Greg Johnson <gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 10:01:49PM -0500, Matthew R. Pavlovich wrote:
> > Just a "me too".  I have had hard lockups with the following system:
> > 
> > 164LX2 533MHz
> 
> Another 21164 system.  This is different from the PC164's.  Anyone know
> what the difference is?  Which sub-arch would the LX2 use? 

I'm not sure what you're asking.  It's identified as a 164LX in the
kernel config.  The "2" is the size of the cache.  I've also seen it
referred to as a alphapc164lx.

> 
> > 4GB Seagate IDE drive
> > 8MB ELSA Gloria Synergy video card.
> > DEC Tulip NIC (Kingston KNE100TX)
> > Debian 2.2
> 
> Have you updated recently?  The autobuilder is back and a good number of
> packages have been updated.

Daily.  The only userspace app that I think might affect it is the
Xserver.

> 
> > more often when running X.  I have tried swapping all removable parts of
> 
> I think we are seeing a lot of this... Here's what I've summarized:
> 
> BUG-- HARD system locks with Alpha processors.
> 
> Description- Unrecoverable (SysReq fails) system lockups at various,
> unpredictable, unrepeatable times.  Users have estimated error could be
> with-
> 
> 	3 PC164's 1 LX2
>  	IDE controller support for alphas. 
> 	CMD646 IDE controller specifically
> 	X - 2 ppl w/ G200 PCI's 1 w/ ELSA Gloria Synergy
> 	2 w/ 3Com 905b's
> 	2 w/ NCR 53C875 SCSI Controllers
> 
> Diagnostics performed- All users have tried different hardware
> configurations, including replacing all IDE hardware w/ SCSI.
> 
> Notes- Some report problems with module loading, or modular kernels.
> 
> Kernel versions- Various 2.2.x.. including 2.2.13 and 2.2.14.
> 
>  Matthew R. Pavlovich

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