Re: Sarge Automatically reboots

[Murali Krishnan Ganapathy <gmurali@cs.uchicago.edu>]

An update. My /etc/hotplug/blacklist did have an i810_tco as well as 
i8xx_tco, but the module was being loaded anyway. The module is called 
i810-tco (- v/s _) and after adding i810-tco to the blacklist file, I am 
no longer having the reboot problems.

Now, I enabled X and now the keyboard and mouse seem to be 
non-functional. If I stay in text mode, things are working well. As soon 
as I go to X, both kbd and mouse become unresponsive. Even 
Alt-Ctrl-Backspace doesn't work (did not check Alt-Ctrl-Del). Even 
though I have a wireless keyboard (and normal PS2 mouse), the keyboard 
is also connected only via the PS/2 port.

I did see many references to mouse and kbd in hotplug scripts, and can 
that be the cause here?

Thanks again for solving the i810-tco problem.

- Murali

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
>
> >   Till last week, my Debian/Testing installation was working very well.
> > Last week I did an "apt-get upgrade". For the last few days, every time 
> > I boot, it goes all the way to the login prompt (disabled X for now), 
> > and even lets me login. After about 1-2 minutes of uptime, it just 
> > reboots. No Kernel Panic, no oops, no nothing. I also have a Windows 
> > installation on the same machine, which is working fine (can rule out 
> > hardware issues?).
> >
> > Here is a list of things I have tried (and none helped)
> >
> > * Single user mode (rule out initscripts)
> > * linux acpi=off apm=power_off (rule out power management)
> > * Boot into knoppix v 3.3 (works without a problem) and do an
> >  "apt-get upgrade" of the debian installation (on the hard disk).
> > * Use a older kernel (2.4.25-1-386), instead of my usual 2.4.26-1-686.
> > * I have also updated the kernel image, etc. (after going through a few
> >  hoops) to run mkinitrd from knoppix)
> >
> > All these have failed. Any suggestions?
> >
> > I have a Intel 2.4GHz processor, 512 MB RAM.
>
>
> Make sure the module 810_tco is not being loaded by hotplug braindamage.
> Boot in emergency mode, remove the module from the disk (or configure
> hotplug to blacklist it).  That should do it.
>
> Some boards malfunction with it, and the watchdog triggers, effectively
> rebooting your machine without any sort of warning.
>
> Of course, that only holds if you have an Intel chipset.