Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:11:37 -0400
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc1, timebomb?
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Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Chris Largret <largret@gmail.com>
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On Saturday 21 October 2006 13:25, Andi Kleen wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:
>> ISTR that was the second time an un-logged powerdown has been done
>> since that kernel became the default.
>
>It might be overheating. During a critical overheat condition the
>ACPI code will just power off. It should still get console messages
>out (but nothing on disk), so if you configure serial or net console
>you would see a message.
>
>And check your fans are ok.
>
>-Andi
>-

Thanks Andi, but heating isn't a problem that I'm aware of, I'm no longer 
running a seti client since they moved it all to BOINC & refused to set 
priorities to reasonable values.  Cpu temps are pretty steady at 120F.

I tried to build and boot to 2.6.19-rc2 twice today, but each time it fails 
at the initrd read phase, saying no (mutter) or cpio magic.  And this is 
with exactly the same command line as always generating the initrd and 
then copying it to the /boot partition.  This works well for 2.6.18, which 
I just rebuilt after having discovered I'd lost the himem magic somehow.

In fact, thats the 2.6.18 I'm running on right now.  If I get a decent 
uptime here, then I'll be pretty well convinced its something in 
2.6.19-rc1 thats doing it.

I haven't tried to setup a seriel console because both serial ports on this 
box are already busy with other things.  I could free a serial port if 
someone could tell me howto make the bulldog ups monitoring software from 
belkin use a usb port instead.  Anyone have a clue to share on that 
subject?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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