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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686: ide driver lockup
- From: Mike Edwards <pf-debian-bugs@mirkwood.net>
- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:41:40 -0400
- Message-id: <20060906234140.15614.99024.reportbug@rivendell.mirkwood.net>
Package: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686
Version: 2.6.17-8
Severity: important
After upgrading to 2.6.17 from 2.6.16-1-686, I found the stability of my
unicpu PIII system was next to nonexistent (it would completely lock up
after only a day or two of uptime). After enabling netconsole, I was able
to capture the following from the kernel:
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61
hda: DMA timeout error
hda: dma timeout error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
hdb: DMA timeout error
Both hard disks appear to be fine, and shouldn't be causing any problems.
Going back to 2.6.16 appears to resolve the stability issues, which implies
software, and not hardware, is at fault.
System in use has an Intel D815EEA2 motherboard, 1 GHz CPU, and 512 MB of
memory, using the onboard ide controller
(Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 11)).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 depends on:
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.77b tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.2-pre9-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.12-9 Yet Another mkInitRD
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 recommends:
pn libc6-i686 <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.17-2-686: false
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
* linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.17-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.17-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.17-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.17-2-686: true
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.17-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/really-run-bootloader-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.17-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.17-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.17-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.17-2-686: false
linux-image-2.6.17-2-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.17-2-686:
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