How do I debug/troubleshoot a crashing system ?
by Kim Lux
I've got a system that freezes up solid when I am doing certain network
operations. I can't open a new session, I can't unfreeze it, basically
all I can do is power down and reboot.
How do I figure out what is causing the problem ? I've checked the
system logs, but they are clean.
What else could I look at and how ?
--
Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
19 years, 3 months
Re: fedora-test-list Digest, Vol 11, Issue 45
by vasundhar
I am using Fedora core 3 on my IBM R51 2888c4
with duel boot.
Cd mounting is done properly but eject mount is giving an error saying
failed to unmount disk.
Regards
Vasundhar
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> 1. Re: onlyservice running and slowing system down (Jeff Spaleta)
> 2. Nvidia GeForce2 Intergrated Freeze (Gabriel Moreno)
> 3. Re: Bug with Java jre in FC3 (Colin Charles)
> 4. Re: 4g/4g patch? (Colin Charles)
> 5. Re: Firstboot is for RHEL - needs a cancel/bypass option
> (Colin Charles)
> 6. Re: Semperon processors (Paul)
> 7. Re: Semperon processors (Paul)
> 8. Re: Semperon processors (Markku Kolkka)
> 9. lvm & logwatch (Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha)
> 10. Re: lvm & logwatch (Charles R. Anderson)
> 11. Re: lvm & logwatch (Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha)
> 12. Re: lvm & logwatch (Charles R. Anderson)
> 13. Fedora Core 3 Test Update:
> selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.74 (Daniel J Walsh)
> 14. Re: lvm & logwatch (Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha)
> 15. OT: zlib clamav-0.81 (shrek-m(a)gmx.de)
> 16. Re: OT: zlib clamav-0.81 (nodata)
> 17. Re: OT: zlib clamav-0.81 (Howard Johnson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:31:37 -0500
> From: Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: onlyservice running and slowing system down
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
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> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:35:07 +1100, Rodd Clarkson <rodd(a)clarkson.id.au> wrote:
> > I've got this process called 'onlyservice' that is using up all CPU and
> > slowing everything down
>
> this is one of the perl scripts used by logwatch to help parse logs
> based on a set of configuration files in /etc/log.d/conf/services/.
> If i understand the magic correctly, onlyservice will be called a
> number of times as logwatch loops through the several individual
> service config files. So i don't think its a big shock to see this
> process reappear after you kill it since i think it gets run multiple
> times. Why its chewing lots of cpu that i don't know. I'm seldom awake
> when logwatch runs as part of the cron.daily scripts.
>
> onlyservice is located in /etc/log.d/scripts/shared
> and is owned by the logwatch package
>
> -jef
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:25:57 -0800
> From: Gabriel Moreno <esclavosoy.ml(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Nvidia GeForce2 Intergrated Freeze
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <85e4e96405012623255d634dc1(a)mail.gmail.com>
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>
> Hello all,
>
> I have an ASUS A7N266 mobo that has an intergrated GeForce2. After I
> install FC3 Stable. And followed http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia and
> then http://www.linuxjunior.org/yabbse/index.php?board=12;action=display;threa....
> Still everytime FC3 would try to load it would freeze. I activated
> and deactivate rhgp and but whenever it would try start running x hd
> activity stoped after getting a blank screen.
>
> I did have it working in the past and it works in windows. Don't know
> what the problem could be. I am just stumped. I installed SuSE and
> it happens to work on Pro 9.1
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gabriel
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:34:14 +0800
> From: Colin Charles <byte(a)aeon.com.my>
> Subject: Re: Bug with Java jre in FC3
> To: gslink(a)one.net, For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1106631254.5401.45.camel(a)localhost.localdomain>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 09:08 -0500, gslink wrote:
> > It appears there is a bug in FC3 which causes display problems when
> > using attributed text in Java. All but the first character of lines
> > of
> > attributed text seems to vanish when displayed in the IBM 1.4.2 jre.
> > This did not happen in RH9. This is going to result in a serious
> > Bugzilla complaint. Has anyone worked on this problem and gotten a
> > better lead on what is broken? It would be helpfull if the Bugzilla
> > post contained a better description of the bug.
>
> Considering that we don't ship the IBM 1.4.2 JRE, you're better off
> writing to IBM's bug tracker (if they have one), as its most likely not
> a FC issue
>
> Do you see the same issue with the sun JRE?
> --
> Colin Charles, byte(a)aeon.com.my
> http://www.bytebot.net/
> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
> then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:40:15 +0800
> From: Colin Charles <byte(a)aeon.com.my>
> Subject: Re: 4g/4g patch?
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
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>
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 08:45 -0600, Philip Molter wrote:
> > The latest kernel update contains a few security fixes I need, but
> > I've
> > come to rely on the large 4GB lowmem space, and upgrading absolutely
> > kills me.
>
> Probably grabbing it out of CVS might help ?
>
> cvs.fedora.redhat.com
>
> After all, for RHEL, a -hugemem kernel is still being built, so the
> patches are there (the .config is definitely there)
> --
> Colin Charles, byte(a)aeon.com.my
> http://www.bytebot.net/
> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
> then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:45:30 +0800
> From: Colin Charles <byte(a)aeon.com.my>
> Subject: Re: Firstboot is for RHEL - needs a cancel/bypass option
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1106631930.5401.50.camel(a)localhost.localdomain>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 03:29 -0500, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
> > However, the firstboot is obviously for RHEL and doesn't provide any
> > means of bypassing or cancelling out of the RHN registration.
> >
> > Do y'all have any opinions as to whether this is a bug or something
> > that
> > needs to be bugzilla'd?
>
> There used to be a bugzilla item open for this iirc, that the package
> owner was looking at; if its a regression and the bug's been closed, its
> worthwhile re-pinging it
> --
> Colin Charles, byte(a)aeon.com.my
> http://www.bytebot.net/
> "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
> then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:59:36 +0000
> From: Paul <paul(a)all-the-johnsons.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Semperon processors
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
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>
> Hi,
>
> > > Now, if I have the processor set at 1GHz, it is recognised as an Athlon
> > > and will boot happily. If I switch it to be the 2.4GHz Semperon that it
> > > is, I get kernel panics and some very odd noises from the machine
> > > itself.
> >
> > Are you sure its a 2.4GHz proc - and not Semperon 2400 (1.66GHz)?
>
> I was told it was a 2.4GHz processor, so that's what I'm working off.
> There is an auto clock setting on the board which also reports it as
> being that.
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul
>
> --
> "I don't know how World War III will be fought, but I do know World War
> IV will be fought with sticks and stones" - Einstein
>
19 years, 3 months
OT: zlib clamav-0.81
by shrek-m＠gmx.de
hi,
fyi
fc3 has zlib-1.2.1.2-1
development has zlib-1.2.2.2-1
$ rpm -q zlib
zlib-1.2.1.2-1
$ pwd
/usr/local/clamav-0.81
$ ./configure
[...]
checking for zlib installation... /usr
configure: error: The installed zlib version may contain a security bug.
Please upgrade to 1.2.2 or later: http://www.zlib.net. You can omit this
check with --disable-zlib-vcheck but DO NOT REPORT any stablility issues
then!
--
shrek-m
19 years, 3 months
Fedora Core 3 Test Update: selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.74
by Daniel J Walsh
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-080
2005-01-27
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : selinux-policy-targeted
Version : 1.17.30
Release : 2.74
Summary : SELinux targeted policy configuration
Description :
Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux® kernel and a number
of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add
mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux
kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to
improve the security of the Flask operating system. These
architectural components provide general support for the enforcement
of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those
based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.
This package contains the SELinux example policy configuration along
with the Flask configuration information and the application
configuration files.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Wed Jan 26 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.30-2.74
- Allow httpd to execute httpdcontent
- Change file_context on postgresql helper apps back to bin_t
- Add typealias for shlib_t to lib_t
* Wed Jan 19 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.17.30-2.73
- Allow dhcpd to read random devices
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/
80c6bb439cee4904ffade84df45d838a
SRPMS/selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.74.src.rpm
8bf1c38d88e7c7746a0f753f270565cc
x86_64/selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.74.noarch.rpm
39c7589df26826b4d142697474ff93e5
x86_64/selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.74.noarch.rpm
8bf1c38d88e7c7746a0f753f270565cc
i386/selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.74.noarch.rpm
39c7589df26826b4d142697474ff93e5
i386/selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.74.noarch.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may
need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line:
yum updates-testing
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3...
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19 years, 3 months
onlyservice running and slowing system down
by Rodd Clarkson
I've got this process called 'onlyservice' that is using up all CPU and
slowing everything down
This has only recently started up (today and maybe yesterday)
It may have something to do with my network card writing to
the /var/log/message log file (for testing purposes) but it also may
not. (This was enabled about four days ago)
If I try to kill the process, it just starts a new one.
What is this and what do I need to do to stop it consuming my CPU?
Rodd
--
>From the pain come the dream
>From the dream come the vision
>From the vision come the people
>From the people come the power
>From this power come the change
- Peter Gabriel
19 years, 3 months
why do I need to do a modprobe huchicoochi dance?
by Brian Millett
I am running rawhide.
I just noticed that the usb flashdrive does not get mounted, or
anything. It is because none of the modules are loaded for usb storage.
I do not know which system this would apply to. HAL? HOTPLUG?
initscripts?
This was working until a week or so ago. I know its a bit vague, but I
didn't test for every update. Its just when I used it last, it worked
with out all of the modprobe stuff. I have to do the following dance to
get the flashdrive to be mounted.
[bpm]$ sudo modprobe usb-ohci
[bpm]$ sudo modprobe uhci-hcd
[bpm]$ sudo modprobe ehci-hcd
[bpm]$ sudo modprobe scsi-mod
[bpm]$ sudo modprobe usb-storage
I know I can put this in rc.local & other places, but what behavior
changed?
Thanks.
--
Brian Millett - [ Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line"]
"Commander, there's a problem."
19 years, 3 months
FC3 Irq conflicts on laptop
by picomp314
I first noticed this problem when I first got a PCMCIA atheros based
wireless card to work. The problem begins whenever I start the wireless
card and then plug in an external USB 2.0 hard drive, mount it, and then
begin browsing the the drive using nautilus, xmms, etc... A quick look
at 'top' shows the logging facilities in FC3, klogd and syslogd, taking
up almost all of the cpu. I then look at the /var/log/messages log in
which i find that the error
serial8250: irq 11 has too much work
is being added to the file at an incredible rate. This of course spurs
me to check the IRQs in proc...
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 1640085 XT-PIC timer
1: 1403 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
9: 2 XT-PIC acpi
11: 164675 XT-PIC ohci1394, ALI 5451, ehci_hcd, ohci_hcd, ohci_hcd,
yenta, yenta, yenta, yenta, ath0, eth0
12: 685 XT-PIC i8042
14: 33533 XT-PIC ide0
15: 36 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0 ERR: 6
I find it completely ridiculous that irq11 is so overloaded while other
irqs are either empty or almost completely empty. I then look within the
pcmcia.opts configuration file to see whether I can switch yenta to a
different interrupt, I instruct the config parser to 'ignore' irq11.
Changing this and then either restarting pcmcia or simply restarting the
computer has absolutely no effect upon IRQs.
So I guess my question essentially spurs from something that I once read
that seemed to suggest to me that pcmcia.opts is not the first file to
be parsed, it is overridden by settings somewhere else. Which
essentially boils down to this; where can I definitively set the irq
used by pcmcia?
Thanks in advance
-John Degenstein
19 years, 3 months
Stress Testing Happiness
by Will H. Backman
Stress testing Fedora Happiness.
I'd just like to pass on a note of thanks to the Fedora community. I am
about to retire our old server. It runs most of the day with a load
average of 6 to 12. This poor thing is having the crap beat out of it
day in and day out. It was provisioned a few years ago and has taken on
more and more tasks. While the response time had obviously dropped
below acceptable limits, it does not falter, leak memory, or do
mysterious things.
--
Will Backman
Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
The ozone layer or cheese in a spray can. Don't make me choose.
19 years, 3 months
Fedora Core 3 Test Update: kernel-2.6.10-1.753_FC3
by Dave Jones
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-066
2005-01-25
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : kernel
Version : 2.6.10
Release : 1.753_FC3
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Thu Jan 20 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Fix x87 fnsave Tag Word emulation when using FXSR (SSE)
- Add multi-card reader of the day to the whitelist. (#145587)
* Tue Jan 18 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Reintegrate netdump/netconsole. (#144068)
* Mon Jan 17 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Update to 2.6.10-ac10
- Revert module loader patch that caused lots of invalid parameter problems.
- Print more debug info when spinlock code triggers a panic.
- Print tainted information on various mm debug info.
* Fri Jan 14 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Enable advansys scsi module on x86. (#141004)
* Thu Jan 13 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Reenable CONFIG_PARIDE (#127333)
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/
22b1e40d10229bdc7d02a3b65fc97cf6 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.src.rpm
60357a793a582d613a2e69d6811af387 x86_64/kernel-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.x86_64.rpm
cd0166c7a2e726328466d7b7ab240e4a x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.x86_64.rpm
660a4ae282a768b5175961e892de3106 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.x86_64.rpm
8e00324334c74115fdb2dc7d300fac27 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.noarch.rpm
8a8792818cc6569efb037792db9424fb i386/kernel-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.i586.rpm
9fd4cf92c98dab50fd1cba25ad06fe37 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.i586.rpm
65d94d608231c18235a214678d850385 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.i586.rpm
e8b89a92b700b57bae0a6aaa85b741ff i386/kernel-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.i686.rpm
dd3ab0b5a27daa49c44721976d3ce76e i386/kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.i686.rpm
6816eee3af5da90e143416319b98a2c7 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.i686.rpm
8e00324334c74115fdb2dc7d300fac27 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.10-1.753_FC3.noarch.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may
need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line:
yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3...
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19 years, 3 months
