[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

[Reginald Beardsley]

FYI I had to force a hard reboot via power switch today (i.e. no shutdown or sync :-(  The system hangs and will not take any input via the X server keyboard & mouse.  In this case it would not even do a clean reboot via the power switch monitor daemon.  Only option was force it down.

I'm running OI 151.  I think a5, but that's from memory rather than from something reliable like uname(1).  From what I know at present this is an interrupt conflict between the keyboard/mouse drivers and the Nvidia graphics driver.

This is apparently an outstanding bug and as far as I can see not easily fixed.  I did not have this problem w/ 148 and I would revert to that except I can't remember the root password :-(

This may not be related to your problem, but the system hanging really isn't a crash.  It's actually much worse.  

I still have scars from a MicroVAX that hung about every 60 days for 18 months. Because it never actually crashed it was very hard to get any help despite top grade support.  Eventually we discovered it was a bad thermal sensor shutting down one side of the split 15 V supply.  But that was only because it did it one day when DEC support was there and we had the skins off the machine and could see the LED status on the power supply.  

After over a year of this I had them living there trying to fix it.  We'd replaced almost everything in the machine except the backplane and cabinet.  We'd already replaced the PS, so when the fault showed on the LED we knew it wasn't the PS which left the thermal sensor in the top of the box.  I never understood why that only shut down one side of the supply, but it did a great job of locking up the CPU.

If you don't get a crash dump, it is *really* hard to resolve the cause and fix it.  There's nothing to get a hold of.

Good luck and please keep us posted.

Reg

--- On Tue, 1/15/13, David Scharbach <david.scharbach at mac.com> wrote:

> From: David Scharbach <david.scharbach at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash
> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
> Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 9:18 PM
> I will make a memtest ISO ASAP. 
> /var/adm/messages shows nothing.  /var/crash does not
> exist on my system.
> 
> Will see what memtest says.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave
> 
> On 2013-01-15, at 9:10 PM, Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > David Scharbach wrote:
> >> I have an OI installation that seems to crash about
> every 20 days.  Locks up completely and needs a hard
> reset.  Not very much fun.
> >> 
> >> Question I have is where would I start to look to
> see why?  I first thought it may be due to scrubbing
> load on the LSI controller but that is not the case. 
> It crashed today hours after a curb was successful at 2AM.
> >> 
> >> I am a new OI user and would really appreciate a
> bit of help on this one.  Basically looking for a crash
> dump of some sort and the locations that I have looked at
> don't really help.
> >> 
> >> System is
> >> 
> >> i3 CPU
> >> 32GB Ram
> >> LSI SAS2008
> >> Intel SAS expander
> >> 13 SATA 7200RPM drives
> >> Asus MB
> > 
> > Is there any evidence of a crash in the logs?
> > 
> > Look in /var/adm/messages for any clues and under
> /var/crash/<hostname> for any dumps.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if there is a version of Solaris CAT
> (Crash Analysis Tool) that works with OI.  If there is
> and you have a dump that's the best place to look.
> > 
> > If there isn't any evidence of a crash, there's a fair
> chance you have a hardware problem.  I'm guessing that
> with an i3 motherboard you won't have ECC memory, so running
> memtest86 for a while would be a good start.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ian.
> > 
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