Re: Debugging hard lockups (hardware?)

Nick Urbanik (nicku@vtc.edu.hk)
Sun, 06 Apr 2003 14:39:52 +0800


Nick Urbanik wrote:

> Dear team,
>
> This machine locks up solid every few days. Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock do
> not respond. The NMI watchdog does not kick in. Alt-SysRq-keys do not
> respond. Logs show no hint of any problem (that I recognise) before lockup.
> Occurs often during scrolling e.g., Mozilla.

I omitted one critical fact: it is only while I am using the machine sitting at the
console; it has never happened while connecting via ssh, even when doing plenty of
I/O.

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