Re: VIA system freezing since upgrade to wheezy
Am Samstag, 18. Mai 2013, 18:21:51 schrieb Mark Carroll:
> I have a small low-power mini-ITX system that I use as our home router.
> It is VIA C7 based with VIA CN700, VT8237, etc. on the motherboard.
> Mainly it just sits there moving packets through iptables, via RTL-8139
> and VT6102 (Rhine) ethernet cards. There's other hardware, of course,
> like the S3 UniChrome Pro graphics, that I don't exactly exercise.
>
> Under squeeze it used to be rock solid. Last week I upgraded it to
> wheezy, also from a custom 2.6.26 kernel to the stock Debian
> 3.2.0-4-686-pae image. Since then, it's frozen a couple of times.
> Nothing useful is left in the logs afterward.
>
> Is this some known problem? Is there anything I should be doing to help
> to diagnose it? I've looked through the kernel startup messages but I
> don't see anything worse than,
> Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle
> longhaul: APIC detected. Longhaul is currently broken in this
> configuration.
>
> I had wondered if it is possible that this Longhaul issue is making the
> system run rather hotter than necessary, but running a for(;;) loop in C
> makes the "sensors" output temperature increase without freezing the
> system.
Yes, be careful: Blacklist longhoul.
See posting by Ben Hutchings on Planet Debian or his blog.
Ciao,
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