Re: [Hampshire] soft lockup detected on CPU#0

Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:13:08 Simon Capstick wrote:
>> Samuel Penn wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We have an 8 core Dell Poweredge which we're running Gentoo on,
>>> which is basically just being used to run VMWare server (not ESX).
>>>
>>> Kernel/CPU details as follows:
>>>
>>> Linux hydra 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #2 SMP Tue Oct 9 16:25:09 GMT 2007
>>> x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5335 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>>> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>> I've seen similar soft-lockups when using Xen but the causes look very
>> different. There's definitely something going on with your IDE adapter.
>> I've actually seen this before many years ago but cannot remember the
>> cause. It may be worth checking that the cable to the CD drive is
>> firmly inserted. Or maybe just remove or disconnect the CD drive if
>> it's unsolvable and you can't live with it.
>
> That's something to check. I'm not sure whether the CD errors
> happen all the time, or just around when the soft lockup occurs
> (there are a lot of CD errors, but I'm not sure how to get timestamp
> info out of dmesg, so no idea how regular they are, or whether
> they are related to the soft lockups).
>
> Cheers.
>

Are the messages in /var/log/kern.log too? If so they should be
timestamped.

Simon