Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264453AbTFEEoQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 00:44:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264460AbTFEEoQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 00:44:16 -0400 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:39176 "EHLO www.home.local") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264453AbTFEEoP (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 00:44:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 06:56:26 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Dan Maas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Alpha hang after 24hrs (2.4.21-rc6) Message-ID: <20030605045626.GD10750@alpha.home.local> References: <20030605004557.A22504@morpheus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030605004557.A22504@morpheus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 953 Lines: 24 On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:45:57AM -0400, Dan Maas wrote: > The symptom is a total lock-up/freeze, nothing is printed to the > console or syslog. I have not tried a serial console yet but that is > my next step. I've encountered this with older kernels when I tried a GigE NIC. > The system is a stock 1-CPU 500MHz Alpha, 128MB RAM, nothing special, > just two 3c59x ethernet cards and an AIC788x SCSI controller. ^^^^^^^ you should retry with the newer driver from : http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC Mine has been running 2.4.21-rc3 + this driver for 8 days now without problem, and there's not much difference between -rc3 and -rc6. Regards, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/