Re: IRQ 19 Problem in Squeeze & Wheezy but Sid OK

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 03/21/2011 10:49 AM, Mark Copper wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Wayne Topa<linuxtwo@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >   Linux Version 2.6.32-5-amd64
> >   Compiled #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011
> >   Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM
> >   3999.52 Bogomips Total
> >
> >
> > I installed, back in February, Squeeze on 3 partitions. For 2 days
> > Squeeze worked fine with wicd but then quit with this error:
> >
> > ____
> > > eb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.383622] wlan0: authenticate with
> > > 00:21:e8:b5:c4:b5 (try 1)
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.580045] wlan0: authenticate with
> > > 00:21:e8:b5:c4:b5 (try 2)
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.780042] wlan0: authenticate with
> > > 00:21:e8:b5:c4:b5 (try 3)
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953908] Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:0 Not
> > > tainted 2.6.37-1-amd64 #1
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953910] Call Trace:
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953912]<IRQ>    [<ffffffff81092ff1>] ?
> > > __report_bad_irq+0x30/0x80
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953923]  [<ffffffff81093168>] ?
> > > note_interrupt+0x127/0x19f
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953927]  [<ffffffff8100f6d5>] ?
> > > sched_clock+0x5/0x8
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953931]  [<ffffffff81093b47>] ?
> > > handle_fasteoi_irq+0xcc/0xf7
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953935]  [<ffffffff8100bf48>] ?
> > > handle_irq+0x17/0x1f
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953938]  [<ffffffff8100b603>] ?
> > > do_IRQ+0x50/0xb5
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953942]  [<ffffffff8131ef13>] ?
> > > ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953944]<EOI>    [<ffffffff81028108>] ?
> > > native_safe_halt+0x2/0x3
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953951]  [<ffffffff81010a95>] ?
> > > default_idle+0x39/0x57
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953954]  [<ffffffff81010bac>] ?
> > > c1e_idle+0xf9/0xfd
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953957]  [<ffffffff81008be9>] ?
> > > cpu_idle+0xb2/0x124
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.953960]  [<ffffffff81317db4>] ?
> > > start_secondary+0x1e5/0x1eb
> > > Feb 22 12:13:10 dj kernel: [  604.980023] wlan0: authentication with
> > > 00:21:e8:b5:c4:b5 timed out
> > >
> > >
> > > Message from syslogd@dj at Tue Feb 22 12:13:10 2011 ...
> > > dj kernel: [  604.953998] Disabling IRQ #19
> >
> > I then upgraded the 2nd Squeeze partition to Testing/Wheezy and the same
> > error occurred as above.

<SNIP>

> Hi Wayne,
>
> You reported is problem on Feb 27, right?
>
> The IRQ 19 problem I reported then seems to disappear when I boot my
> machine with the "irqpoll" parameter.
>
> At least it has been up for 15 days with its /proc/irq/19/spurious
> looking like this:
> count 58513
> unhandled 2
> last_unhandled 1208748848 ms
>
> the last unhandled IRQ being nearly 14 days ago.
>
> Mark

Thanks Mark. Good to know it is working for you at least.

Did you do an upgrade or anything else before trying the irqpoll?

The irqpoll didn't work here, sadly, so I am still looking for the cause 
of the problem.

Regards

WT