[ale] rh7.3, newish machine, kernel panci please help!

[James P. Kinney III]

Jenn,

I have had similar problems here. It is related to xscreensaver. There
are posibbly more than one screensaver that has a serious flaw that can
hard lock the box. My wife's machine is set on random screen saver and
used to lock. My box uses nothing but the OpenGL ones and has no
problem. I don't know which exact screen saver(s) were the issue.
Several I know works OK are matrix, all the opengl, pipes, morph3d,
blaster, galaxy, gears, grav, moebius, molecule, rocks (with 3D on is
cool!), speedmine, sproingies, stairs, T3D, xflame.  Also, make sure you
have the latest upgraded version of xscreensaver as Jamie fixed a lot of
bugs. The stock version in RH until 8.0 was a bit buggy around the
edges.

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 23:53, J.M. Taylor wrote:
> I have a machine that's built from pieces, it's less than 2 months old. 
> AMD Athlon XP 1700+/266mhz, Gigabyte GA-7VAX mainboard, 512 MB generic
> RAM, ATI Radeon 9000 AGP video card, and whatever onboard crap comes with
> the Gigabyte.
> 
> I've been having sort of flakey issues with it since I put it together,
> but was running Suse 7.1 at the time and have been thoroughly frustrated
> with any efforts trying to tinker with it (my fault, not Suse's) so loaded
> RH 7.3 last weekend.  Typical, xscreensaver locks up, locks the whole
> machine, can't ssh in to kill any processes, can't ctl+alt+del, etc (this
> is why I left RH in the first place, over a year ago and on different
> hardware!).  So this evening, same story as above, getting VERY
> frustrated, and on reboot fsck fails.
> 
> I've cold booted multi-user, single user, and -b, every time is the same
> story.
> I have NO idea what i'm looking at here, I can find some mumblings about
> problems with stock RH kernels on google, but nothing terribly helpful. I
> updated all the errata that I don't compile from source on Wednesday.
> (gcc, glibc, but *not* the kernel because I was going to compile my own
> this weekend).
> If anyone can help me even interpret what this stuff at the bottom of this
> email means, I will be eternally grateful.  Right now I don't know if I'm
> looking at a memory problem, a hard drive problem, a hdd controller issue,
> or a kernel problem.
> 
>  / partition is fine, /boot partition is fine, /usr partition causes fsck
> to seg fault and then the following messages appear (sorry no numbers in
> the little call trace [<>], I had to write this all down on a sheet of
> paper. If it's important, I can acquire the numbers in the call trace).
> 
> Stack <<lots of numbers here>>
> Call Trace [<c013bdee>] end_buffer_io_async [kernel] 0x3e
> [<>] end_that_request_first [kernel] 0x5a
> [<>] ide_end_request [kernel] 0x58
> [<>] read_intr [kernel] 0x196
> [<>] rh_int_timer_do [usb_uhci] 0x0
> [<>] ide_intr [kernel] 0x65
> [<>] read_intr [kernel] 0x0
> [<>] handle_IRQ_event [kernel] 0x3a
> [<>] do_IRQ [kernel] 0x68
> [<>] default_idle [kernel] 0x0
> [<>] stext [kernel] 0x0
> [<>] default_idle [kernel] 0x0
> [<>] default_idle [kernel] 0x0
> [<>] stext [kernel] 0x0
> [<>] default_idle [kernel] 0x23
> [<>] cpu_idle [kernel] 0x24
> 
> Code: 86 02 85 45 f0 74 18 6a 00 52 e8 7e f8 ff ff 83 c4 08 85 c0
> <0> Kernel Panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
> In interrupt handler - not syncing
> 
> TIA
> jenn
> 
> 
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