Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756638AbYLVXcl (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:32:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755079AbYLVXcc (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:32:32 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:6275 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752622AbYLVXcc (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:32:32 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=wJBuO7+XCWEUGIW36n1rep5b5SfyemFS2SKqfW6OCIA48bPr2FZn0qvfoWPFgHJePF j1U5V0pZQwFZhlY3cW8n+QqiXWSQhLqNXnqn+n79aAUw/pONIjwi2ZCW6g8OctwxvHcp NZq17C6xvzYWaNiCqPJ26c0pmM4Ncf20McAk0= Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:32:24 +0100 From: Marcin Slusarz To: malc Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Lock-up on PPC64 Message-ID: <20081222233223.GA6688@joi> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1481 Lines: 35 On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:18:07PM +0300, malc wrote: > Plain/non-root userspace application which doesn't interface with > any weird out-of/in-tree drivers manages to lock-up a PS3 machine > running Linux. > > The application in question is Mono VM running mcs.exe (C# compiler) > which tries to compile particular file, distribution is Yellow Dog Linux > 6.0 with either stock (2.6.23.x) or custom compiled (2.6.27) 64bit kernel. > > > Symptoms are as follows (interaction is done via ssh from another > machine): > > $ make > ... lots of stdout/err messages > ... eventually an error message > > Eventually the ssh session terminates, PS3 is still pingable but > impossible to connect to, attaching keyboard and trying magic SysRq > doesn't work, typing keys into login: prompt works (as in - the terminal > shows keys that were pressed, but after hittiing enter the carret is > advanced and nothing happens, hitting random keys doesn't yield anything > either) Check your RAM first (memtest). If it won't find anything please post your config and dmesg. You can enable some debugging options ("Kernel hacking" in menuconfig), setup netconsole and see if it can catch anything. (see Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt) Marcin -- 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/