[wplug] Machine is locking up without a trace

[Darius Cardren]

I just had a similar thing (well pcmcia and networking) on a mandrake
10 box, one minute iw as online, then i removed the pcmcia cd rom
drive, adn my light goes out on my nic, i reboot and it still dosne't
light up, i go into the bios and run the hardware diag tools and
pcmcia is fubar now....


On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 16:26:23 -0500, Scott F. Kiesling <kiesling at pitt.edu> wrote:
> Just as a follow-up:
> 
> I thought I'd see how things go with a Knoppix CD.
> Everything went fine, until I configured the net. Then I
> locked up. For some reason I popped out the pcmcia network
> card, and MAGIC -- unfrozen.
> 
> I am now on the trail of figuring out what the actual
> problem is here. Since it happened with Knoppix, I figure
> it's hardware. I think I have another PCMCIA card that I can
> use to see if that's the problem, otherwise it's whatever
> part(s) connect with that. Any suggestions are welcome,
> but at least there's a lead at this point, and I seem to be
> able to fix it by ejecting the card and re-inserting it.
> 
> Thanks for all your help. Still don't know what that
> "atkbd.c" thing is.
> 
> SFK
> 
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:14:54PM -0500, Carl Benedict wrote:
> > From: Carl Benedict <cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com>
> > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:14:54 -0500
> 
> 
> > To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> > Subject: Re: [wplug] Machine is locking up without a trace
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 15:13, Scott F. Kiesling wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:33:01PM -0500, Ryan W. Frenz wrote:
> > > > From: "Ryan W. Frenz" <rfrenz at gmail.com>
> > > > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:33:01 -0500
> > > > To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> > > > Subject: Re: [wplug] Machine is locking up without a trace
> > > >
> > > > > Any chance it's related to
> > > > > Power Management?  That age is a prime candidate for that period of time
> > > > > when things weren't really stable from a HW / PM standpoint (like the
> > > > > Intel GX chipset perhaps?)
> > > >
> > > > I had a similar problem on an IBM laptop of similar age...and it ended
> > > > up being ACPI -- I just disabled it and didn't lock up again.  In my
> > > > experience APM has been much more stable, at least w.r.t. IBMs.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks already for all the usual excellent help, which will
> > > take me a while to follow.
> > >
> > > In the meantime, I looked in the logs for some ACPI stuff, but did find this
> > > right before the second time this happened:
> > >
> > >     atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like
> > >     XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly
> > >
> > > I googled 'atkbd ACK' and got a lot of kernel hacking things
> > > I didn't really understand, like this:
> > >
> > > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2003-10/5413.html
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate knowing if this is something to ignore.
> > >
> >
> > This could be the problem.  The thread you pointed to is saying that
> > after a similar message, their system would lock up waiting for X to
> > translate that keycode.  Although the page title says it was kernel
> > 2.6.0-test9.
> >
> > Can you correlate this lockup to a specific keypress or situation?  Are
> > there any more similar messages in your log file?  Seeing how you are in
> > the Dept. of Linguistics, does this happen when you are using a
> > particular input method for another language?  Or maybe you are using a
> > non-standard keyboard? I've had some trouble recently with Korean input
> > methods or glyph rendering killing my X session completely under kernel
> > 2.6.6.
> >
> > A google for the specific error message in quotes returned quite a few
> > results.  I don't see anything relevant yet though.
> >
> > > Any idea if rebuilding with a new kernel might help, or
> > > hurt?
> > >
> > > SFK
> >
> > --
> > Carl Benedict
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> > cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com
> >
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