ftp version 7.3 hangs when 10 minutes idle
Hi, I tried to install ftp version of 7.3. The system hangs when virtual console switch off after 10 minutes idle time. No log messages, no CapsLock, NumLock leds, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no Alt-Fn, no ping answer thru network, etc... Only blank screen, Reset and no ideas... The same appears on two completely different systems: 1. - AMD Athlon 1.4G DDR, ASUS A7M266, ASUS 8200 (nVidia GeForce 3), 512Mb DDR SDRAM, 2 SCSI hard disks, USB mouse, ... 2. - Intel PII - 400, Intel ??? motherboard, ATI 3D RAGE X-???, 128Mb SDRAM, UATA-66 hard disk, PS/2 mouse, ... (I don't remember all old hardware) I tried reinstall several times, with "Minimal System" or "Default" configurations, install from scratch, or update from 7.2 - same result. I have successfully updated 7.2 to 7.3 on third computer - laptop Compaq Armada M700 PII 400, so sometimes it works. Any ideas? -Sasha O
* Alexander Orevkov (sasha@lxlin.math.technion.ac.il) [011122 00:55]:
The system hangs when virtual console switch off after 10 minutes idle time. No log messages, no CapsLock, NumLock leds, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no Alt-Fn, no ping answer thru network, etc... Only blank screen, Reset and no ideas...
Turn off APM and "hardware monitoring" in the bios. -- -ckm
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
The system hangs when virtual console switch off after 10 minutes idle time. No log messages, no CapsLock, NumLock leds, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no Alt-Fn, no ping answer thru network, etc... Only blank screen, Reset and no ideas...
Turn off APM and "hardware monitoring" in the bios.
I have already APM disabled. Turned off "hadrware monitoring" - same result. -sasha
On Thu, Nov 22, Alexander Orevkov wrote:
I have already APM disabled. Turned off "hadrware monitoring" - same result.
Hmm, could you please try to boot using the "disableapic" kernel parameter? Hope that helps! Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany That was a pointing device? My cat thought it was dinner.
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hmm, could you please try to boot using the "disableapic" kernel parameter? Hope that helps!
Lenz, Thank you, this fixes the problem, but what does it mean - hardware failure or 2.4.10 kernel bug? I don't know what is APIC (and have no time to learn), but I want to know if I should enable this option after future kernel upgrade or it's safe to forget this? Thank you for your time, with best regards, -Sasha O
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Alexander Orevkov wrote:
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hmm, could you please try to boot using the "disableapic" kernel parameter? Hope that helps!
Thank you, this fixes the problem, but what does it mean - hardware failure or 2.4.10 kernel bug? I don't know what is APIC (and have no time to learn), but I want to know if I should enable this option after future kernel upgrade or it's safe to forget this?
Glad to hear, that it fixes your problem. APIC is an acronym for "Avanced Programmable Interrupt Controller" and is a piece of hardware usually used on SMP systems. Due to buggy hardware (a certain ASUS P4 Mainboard, IIRC), we had to enable APIC support for the non-SMP Kernel as well. Unfortunately it seems like this feature does lead to instability on other UP systems. The kernel parameter disables this feature. If you do not have an SMP system (only one processor), you can simply disable it when you recompile your kernel. So I would consider it a mixture between a kernel and hardware bug :) Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany When all else fails, read the instructions.
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