---- Rick Sewill rsewill@gmail.com wrote:
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Having said the above, if you suspect an acpi or apic problem, the URL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems says, "acpi=off is a big hammer, and if that works, narrowing down by trying pci=noacpi instead may yield clues" It also says, "nolapic and noapic are sometimes useful"
A quick update. I tried the acpi=no option and so far, so good. I have even brought it back into X windows and ran some yum updates to apply some stress. I'll leave it in this state until tomorrow evening just to make sure. Then I'll try the smaller hammers.
Question showing my ignorance of what acpi is. If pci=noacpi works or does not work, what clues is that giving me?
I didn't respond earlier because we've reached my level of ignorance too.
If I were you, I might try to narrow the problem a little further.
Eventually I would write a Bugzilla bug report telling the maintainers the symptoms, what I had done, including things that didn't work as well as things that seemed to work.
A followup on my previous thread. I worked through a number of the suggestions in the KernelCommonProblems. The two kernel options that kept the system from freezing were acpi=off and clocksource=jiffies. The system either froze or crashed with any other options, including no options. Here is the grub.conf I used to keep track of the experiments:
title Fedora 13 (original) --crashed-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 acpi=off --works-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 acpi=off initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 pci=noacpi --froze-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 pci=noacpi initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 nolapic --froze-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 nolapic initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 noapic --froze-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 noapic initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 nolapic_timer --froze-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 nolapic_timer initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 nohz=off --froze-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 nohz=off initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 highres=off --froze-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 highres=off initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 nohz=off highres=off --froze-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 nohz=off highres=off initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 clocksource=acpi_pm --froze-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 clocksource=acpi_pm initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 nohz=off highres=off clocksource=acpi_pm --froze-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 nohz=off highres=off clocksource=acpi_pm initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora 13 clocksource=jiffies --works-- (2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg00-root1 rd_LVM_LV=vg00/root1 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau debug nmi_watchdog=2 clocksource=jiffies initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.i686.PAE.img
Question. Anyone know what I capabilities I lose with acpi=off or clocksource=jiffies?
Now off to bugzilla.
Andrew Robinson