power Error
Hello,
I'm really clueless about the following problem:
I'm running a Sparc E250 server since december last year under potato.
Two weeks ago the machine canceled network connection (no ping) and
dosn't had any output on ttyS0 console. I switched it off :-( and
on again some times but it doesn't helped.
When Sun service came the damn box worked again (doing several minutes
e2fsck - hey are there any patches for XFS ready for production ???)
and started working again.
The only unusual thing logcheck reported was:
Unusual System Events
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Apr 4 08:38:10 bse kernel: power: Error, cannot register IRQ handler.
Apr 4 08:38:10 bse kernel: request_irq: Old style IRQ registry attempt from 00000000005c7a68, irq 00000000.
Looking at the date you see that it happened again. I found out that
rebooting depends from the position of the keyswitch:
If I switch the key to "Diagnostics" it doesn't start, but no failure
LED is on at the Control Panel.
If I switch on to "Power-On" position some seconds after switching on the
"General fault" LED lights steadily. Kind of alarming but the service man
thinks it is a Linux problem. If I would boot Solaris it would be off.
I'm really clueles what to do now. Does anybody have any experiences which
could give me a hint. I have to admit that I havn't observed the state
of the "General fault" LED in the days before the first failure, but I
can't imagine that it would be on. Moreover why isn't the box starting in
the "Diagnostics"-mode?
Could Linux be related to this LED / switching randomly off trouble.
As I said, I'm using
~> uname -a
Linux bse 2.2.18pre21 #1 SMP Tue Dec 19 22:53:19 CET 2000 sparc64 unknown
on a pure potato machine with security and proposed-updates.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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