On 06/03/2011 12:38 AM, William Austin wrote:
Recently I replaced MB/CPU/Memory on my main workstation, and a few
days later I installed FC14. The problems started then. I have tried
looking this one up in bugzilla, but so far with no luck.
The system ran cleanly for 4 days on FC13 and the problems I describing
started only after the new install.
THE PROBLEM (h/w s/w details after this section):
What is happening is that processes are dying randomly. So far no core
dumps however, so I can't go into it that way. I did start a background
process going however, and every 2 minutes I do a dump of dmseg to a file.
Currently I have about 3000 saves of dmesg to look at. Only a couple
of things fall out:
1) 16 times I have hit a combination of both the message
"BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000049"
"Oops: 0000 [#2] SMP" (or [#14] which I presume means
both 1& 4)
(16 out of 3000 is statistically below the noise threshold)
2) 88 times I got the message:
"last sysfs file:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb6/stat"
I had this same type of problem with a newly-built FC14 system using an
AMD 1090T on a Gigabyte mobo. The problem, as it turned out,
was that I needed to update the BIOS of the mobo to support the AMD
1090T, and it has been rock-solid ever since then. My mobo was
an earlier-rev 880GM series.
So you might want to check to see that your BIOS is compatible with the
1090T CPU.