Re: kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
On 11 Apr, 2008, at 04:12, Karl Schmidt wrote: Apr 10 10:54:02 poland kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) I see this every once in a while - no problems with the server and others on the web see it only on amd64. Any kernel gurus know exactly what this means? Receive Illegal Vector. From what I understand it means your motherboard's apic is sending invalid io vectors to the cpu Unfortunately it means a crappy motherboard more often than hardware failure. Possibly you could look for and install a bios upgrade (since the apic is set up by the bios). If it bothers you too much, you can run without the apic with kernel parameter noapic at the cost of some speed. Ernest. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Watchdog
On a Supermicro quad socket board, the jumpers for "watchdog" (reboot the system when a software application hangs) is set to "activated". Activation on BIOS is also required.As I am going to install Debian amd64 (either lenny or etch) for purely numeric calculations (no X system), I wonder whether it would be better to disable hardware watchdog. On dual socket systems I never managed to install Debain amd64 software watchdog. Is any advantage in activating either hardware or software watchdog for such use?Thanksfrancesco pietra__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Watchdog
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Re: Watchdog
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Francesco Pietra wrote: As I am going to install Debian amd64 (either lenny or etch) for purely numeric calculations (no X system), I wonder whether it would be better to disable hardware watchdog. On dual socket systems I never managed to install Debain amd64 software watchdog. Is any advantage in activating either hardware or software watchdog for such use? Ciao Francesco. Having a watchdog in your case is useful if (and only if) that machine is going to be (physically) in a somewhat hard to access place. In that case, if something, anything hangs your computer so badly that you would need to physically reboot it, the watchdog will do it for you (and in most cases you will then be able to access the box remotely, unless something really bad happened). If you have easy physical access to the machine, so that in case of need you can just go to next room and push the reset button, you probably don't need the watchdog for the intended use of your machine. Have fun, Giacomo -- _ Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI Str. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA) Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222 Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916 _ When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are (Freddy Mercury) _ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Watchdog
Hi GiacomoI am going to change the jumper settings in order to disable watchdog. Thanks.The new system, with four dual-core 875, is OK at the first launch and starts amd64 with previous HDs for two dual-core 265. Now to reinstall amd64.If the system is really OK, with less than thousand euros (using the 24 DDr1 and the two WD Raptor I had from previous system, and a 4U rack from disposal), I'll move to notably faster calculations.francesco--- On Fri, 4/11/08, Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: WatchdogTo: "Francesco Pietra" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: "debian64" debian-amd64@lists.debian.orgDate: Friday, April 11, 2008, 1:48 AMOn Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Francesco Pietra wrote: As I am going to install Debian amd64 (either lenny or etch) for purely numeric calculations (no X system), I wonder whether it would be better to disable hardware watchdog. On dual socket systems I never managed to install Debain amd64 software watchdog. Is any advantage in activating either hardware or software watchdog for such use?Ciao Francesco. Having a watchdog in your case is useful if (and only if)that machine is going to be (physically) in a somewhat hard to access place.In that case, if something, anything hangs your computer so badly that youwould need to physically reboot it, the watchdog will do it for you (and inmost cases you will then be able to access the box remotely, unlesssomething really bad happened). If you have easy physical access to themachine, so that in case of need you can just go to next room and push thereset button, you probably don't need the watchdog for the intended use ofyour machine.Have fun,Giacomo-- _Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED]_OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARIStr. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA)Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916_"When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are" (Freddy Mercury)_-- This message has been scanned for viruses anddangerous content by MailScanner, and isbelieved to be clean.-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED]francesco--- On Fri, 4/11/08, Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: WatchdogTo: "Francesco Pietra" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: "debian64" debian-amd64@lists.debian.orgDate: Friday, April 11, 2008, 1:48 AMOn Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Francesco Pietra wrote: As I am going to install Debian amd64 (either lenny or etch) for purely numeric calculations (no X system), I wonder whether it would be better to disable hardware watchdog. On dual socket systems I never managed to install Debain amd64 software watchdog. Is any advantage in activating either hardware or software watchdog for such use?Ciao Francesco. Having a watchdog in your case is useful if (and only if)that machine is going to be (physically) in a somewhat hard to access place.In that case, if something, anything hangs your computer so badly that youwould need to physically reboot it, the watchdog will do it for you (and inmost cases you will then be able to access the box remotely, unlesssomething really bad happened). If you have easy physical access to themachine, so that in case of need you can just go to next room and push thereset button, you probably don't need the watchdog for the intended use ofyour machine.Have fun,Giacomo-- _Giacomo Mulas [EMAIL PROTECTED]_OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARIStr. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA)Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916_"When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are" (Freddy Mercury)_-- This message has been scanned for viruses anddangerous content by MailScanner, and isbelieved to be clean.-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED]__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Watchdog
Don't bother. The watchdog only triggers if it is enabled within the kernel (module loaded) and activated by an application. Unless you install such an application and give it the privilege to use the watchdog, nothing will ever happen. As said earlier, if a system is in a difficult to reach place, a watchdog can be _very_ useful. Ernest On 11 Apr, 2008, at 12:28, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi Giacomo I am going to change the jumper settings in order to disable watchdog. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Watchdog
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Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard
I have assembled a system with a H8QCE quad socket motherboard (amd dual opteron 875), attaching the two SATA HDs from my previous system dual socket on a Tyan S2895 motherboard (dual opteron 265). No additional card was added, i.e., I am using integrated VGA and JLAN (Gigabit Ethernet RJ45). The new system launches Debian Linux amd64 etch present on the disks. Before installing Debian amd64 anew, I wanted to configure BIOS. Unable to enter BIOS. What is entered is Intel(R) Boot Agent. From a search on internet, it seems that Inter Boot Agent is required by motherboards that incorporate a network system (the present one incorporates a Gibabit, see above). I have also seen that Intel Boot Agent can be suppressed using some extra Intel software. Initially my new system was not at the router, than it was attached to the router. Can't say if the Intel Boot agent only appeared when the system was at the router. Well, the hope is that some Debian user have familiarity with such affairs, or that I was grossly unable to find the way to enter BIOS (wath happens at boot goes on so rapidly that there is no time to read. The manual says to enter BIOS with ESC: either ESC or Ctrl + S bring to the Intel Boot Agent. Thanks francesco pietra __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing amd64 with Supermicro motherboard
On Friday 11 Apr 2008, Francesco Pietra wrote: The new system launches Debian Linux amd64 etch present on the disks. Before installing Debian amd64 anew, I wanted to configure BIOS. Unable to enter BIOS. What is entered is Intel(R) Boot Agent. Last time I worked on a Supermicro mobo, it was the usual DEL for BIOS setup. On some of the oddball machines I've seen, placing a large, heavy book on the keayboard (so all the typing keys are held down!) sort-of works, either by stopping the POST with a keyboard error or because the right key was held down (along with several wrong ones!) -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:08:15PM +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote: Thanks, I got it from sid. m-a compiled it all right, but X didn't want to find the module. I had to leave for work, I will dig deeper when I get home... Thanks all, especially Lennart. I have nvidia now working. Don't know why it failed earlier, I just redid all the steps, and suddenly it works. -H -- Heikki Levanto In Murphy We Turst heikki (at) lsd (dot) dk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java - icedtea Amd64 lenny solution
For the record, this seems to work without a chroot on Lenny. Java installed (1.7.0). I have written up some of the different ways of adding java here: http://wiki.xtronics.com/index.php/Java_install#Java_on_Debian Feel free to add others methods in their own section. I also have flash working without a chroot uses nswrapper by grabbing flashplugin-nonfree out of sid - seems a bit buggy - have to restart the browser now and again. I tried to send in a request to package icedtea - seems to not be listed though?? Karl Schmidt EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com 3209 West 9th StreetPh (785) 841-3089 Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 The lawyer was about two bubbles off plumb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
Karl Schmidt wrote: Apr 10 10:54:02 poland kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) I see this every once in a while - no problems with the server and others on the web see it only on amd64. Any kernel gurus know exactly what this means? Not a kernel guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I used to see it on my 64-bit, dual core systems (nForce 4 mb) (running 32-bit Linux kernels). Also saw it on a dual-socket system socket for 370 Celeron.* With 64-bit kernels, the whole system locks up during the boot init stuff. I think it means your motherboard has a broken BIOS, usually. (APIC implemented badly.) On mine, I run with the kernel parameter noapic, which seems to do no harm. Mark Allums * Yes, I had one of the legendary Abit motherboards that did dual socket 370 Celerons before the Pentium III came out (and it wouldn't do the Pentium III, it had voltage issues.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
