[nycbug-talk] New box is killing me

[Charles Sprickman]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 mlists at bizintegrators.com wrote:

> Maybe disable hyperthreading in BIOS..

Or go to something more recent.  5.2.1 is beta quality at best.  I 
believe 5.3 is now available.  What type of raid controller are you using?

Charles

> On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:42:06PM -0500, Dan Casey wrote:
>> I dont know if this is the right mailling list to be sending this to. I've just discovered nycbug today. But this problem is killing me.
>> This is a new 1u computer. 3 sata drives on raid5 (not currently plugged into the computer), and 1 80 wd sata plugged into the onboard sata controller.
>>
>> If anyone can help, or even point me in the direction of help, please!
>> This new box is more trouble then its worth...
>>
>> I took my raid controller out, and installed 5.2.1 release on a single hard drive, thinking that the raid was the problem.
>>
>> the computer pauses randomly for a second every once in a while.. by randomly i mean every other second.
>>
>> i tried to reboot the system and this is what i got, followed by a complete freeze..
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------... 'vnlru' to stop... stopped
>> kernel trap 1 with interrupts disabled
>>
>>
>> Fatal trap 1: privileged instruction fault while in kernel mode
>> cpuid = 1; apic id = 01
>> instruction pointer		= 0x8:0xebfeab82
>> stack pointer			= 0x10:0xebfeab60
>> frame pointer			= 0x10:0xebfeab7c
>> code segment			= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x16
>> 				= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>> processor eflags		= resume, IOPL = 0
>> current process			= 552(reboot)
>> trap number			= 1
>> panic: privileged instruction fault
>> cpuid = 1;
>> boot() called on cpu#1
>>
>> syncing disks, buffers remaining... panic: pmap_invalid_range: interupts disabled
>> cpuid = 1;
>> boot() called on cpu#1
>> Uptime: 7m11s
>> spin lock sched lock held by 0xc2957640 for > 5 secondsThank you!!!
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