I didn't mention before that this is guest os running on virtualbox. Below, is dmesg.log
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-2-686 (Debian 2.6.26-19lenny2) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Wed Nov 4 20:45:37 UTC 2009 [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000257f0000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000257f0000 - 0000000025800000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] WARNING: strange, CPU MTRRs all blank? [ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.000000] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:696 mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x178/0x183() [ 0.000000] Modules linked in: [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-2-686 #1 [ 0.000000] [<c01225f3>] warn_on_slowpath+0x40/0x66 [ 0.000000] [<c02b9b2b>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x16/0x2f [ 0.000000] [<c02b9bb9>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xd/0x10 [ 0.000000] [<c0122a94>] release_console_sem+0x173/0x18c [ 0.000000] [<c0122f0b>] vprintk+0x2d2/0x2de [ 0.000000] [<c010cd84>] mtrr_wrmsr+0xf/0x2e [ 0.000000] [<c0122f2b>] printk+0x14/0x18 [ 0.000000] [<c03873cb>] mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x178/0x183 [ 0.000000] [<c0385060>] setup_arch+0x254/0x6bb [ 0.000000] [<c0122f2b>] printk+0x14/0x18 [ 0.000000] [<c037f5e4>] start_kernel+0x62/0x2d7 [ 0.000000] ======================= [ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- [ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 599MB LOWMEM available. [ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 153584) 0 entries of 256 used [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096 [ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 153584 [ 0.000000] HighMem 153584 -> 153584 [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node [ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 153584 [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 153584 [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1168 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 148320 pages, LIFO batch:31 [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] DMI 2.5 present. [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000E0000, 0024 (r2 VBOX ) [ 0.000000] ACPI: XSDT 257F0030, 002C (r1 VBOX VBOXXSDT 1 ASL 61) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 257F00E0, 00F4 (r4 VBOX VBOXFACP 1 ASL 61) [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 257F0220, 1A0C (r1 VBOX VBOXBIOS 2 INTL 20061109) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 257F01E0, 0040 [ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008 [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 25800000:da7c0000) [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000 [ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 [ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 0 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 37992 bytes of per cpu data [ 0.000000] NR_CPUS: 8, nr_cpu_ids: 1 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 152384 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet [ 0.000000] Found and enabled local APIC! [ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000) [ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0 [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) [ 0.000000] Detected 2389.864 MHz processor. [ 0.004000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 0.004000] console [tty0] enabled [ 0.004000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 0.004000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 0.004000] Memory: 598724k/614336k available (1770k kernel code, 14940k reserved, 750k data, 244k init, 0k highmem) [ 0.004000] virtual kernel memory layout: [ 0.004000] fixmap : 0xfff4c000 - 0xfffff000 ( 716 kB) [ 0.004000] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) [ 0.004000] vmalloc : 0xe6000000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 407 MB) [ 0.004000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe57f0000 ( 599 MB) [ 0.004000] .init : 0xc037f000 - 0xc03bc000 ( 244 kB) [ 0.004000] .data : 0xc02baaa1 - 0xc0376620 ( 750 kB) [ 0.004000] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02baaa1 (1770 kB) [ 0.004000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok. [ 0.004000] CPA: page pool initialized 1 of 1 pages preallocated [ 0.096210] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5090.78 BogoMIPS (lpj=10181576) [ 0.098717] Security Framework initialized [ 0.098816] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 0.098887] Capability LSM initialized [ 0.101906] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 0.141608] Initializing cgroup subsys ns [ 0.141896] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct [ 0.142113] Initializing cgroup subsys devices [ 0.143338] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K [ 0.143624] CPU: L2 cache: 512K [ 0.143855] Intel machine check architecture supported. [ 0.144528] Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. [ 0.145453] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [ 0.199434] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [ 1.424031] Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed [ 1.425883] ACPI: Core revision 20080321 [ 1.453007] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e00) [ 1.521880] weird, boot CPU (#0) not listedby the BIOS. [ 1.522270] SMP motherboard not detected. [ 1.532031] SMP disabled [ 1.568720] Brought up 1 CPUs [ 1.568783] Total of 1 processors activated (5090.78 BogoMIPS). [ 1.568858] CPU0 attaching sched-domain: [ 1.568907] domain 0: span 0 [ 1.568966] groups: 0 [ 1.632024] net_namespace: 660 bytes [ 1.633726] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware [ 1.643479] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 1.654238] ACPI: bus type pci registered [ 1.670883] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc080, last bus=0 [ 1.671148] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access [ 1.671423] Setting up standard PCI resources [ 1.716768] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT [ 1.762069] ACPI: Interpreter enabled [ 1.762139] ACPI: (supports S0 S5) [ 1.762375] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing [ 1.807540] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) [ 1.838948] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] [ 1.865318] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 5 9 10 11) *0, disabled. [ 1.866938] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 9 10 *11) [ 1.867213] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 5 9 *10 11) [ 1.868851] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 *9 10 11) [ 1.871511] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [ 1.873158] pnp: PnP ACPI init [ 1.873267] ACPI: bus type pnp registered [ 1.885384] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 6 devices [ 1.885427] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered [ 1.885460] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [ 1.901465] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [ 1.959186] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 1.970097] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 1.971283] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 1.983993] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 1.984084] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) [ 1.984084] TCP reno registered [ 1.984084] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 1.987569] checking if image is initramfs... it is [ 2.468117] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0 [ 2.952228] Freeing initrd memory: 6037k freed [ 2.958039] platform rtc_cmos: registered platform RTC device (no PNP device found) [ 2.990770] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 2.998123] type=2000 audit(1264024612.993:1): initialized [ 3.008155] Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 [ 3.008155] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [ 3.008155] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 3.008155] msgmni has been set to 1181 [ 3.011812] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253) [ 3.011883] io scheduler noop registered [ 3.011927] io scheduler anticipatory registered [ 3.011963] io scheduler deadline registered [ 3.012027] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 3.012109] pci 0000:00:00.0: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers [ 3.013194] pci 0000:00:01.0: Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds [ 3.013299] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device [ 3.038646] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 3.484147] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [ 3.580259] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 3.646022] brd: module loaded [ 3.648109] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [ 3.668214] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 3.670618] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 3.677432] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 3.704173] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 [ 3.704173] rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 [ 3.710502] rtc0: alarms up to one day [ 3.721128] cpuidle: using governor ladder [ 3.721188] cpuidle: using governor menu [ 3.721271] No iBFT detected. [ 3.722403] TCP cubic registered [ 3.722468] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 3.722597] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [ 3.726773] registered taskstats version 1 [ 3.728099] rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: setting system clock to 2010-01-20 21:56:55 UTC (1264024615) [ 3.739479] Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed [ 7.803716] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver [ 7.803819] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 8.014649] PIIX4: IDE controller (0x8086:0x7111 rev 0x01) at PCI slot 0000:00:01.1 [ 8.015078] PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later [ 8.015302] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007 [ 8.015431] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f [ 8.015764] Probing IDE interface ide0... [ 8.178635] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI [ 8.178703] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. [ 8.422597] hda: VBOX HARDDISK, ATA DISK drive [ 8.752388] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M [ 8.786938] FDC 0 is a S82078B [ 9.099340] hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 [ 9.103485] hda: UDMA/33 mode selected [ 9.104123] Probing IDE interface ide1... [ 9.847328] hdc: VBOX CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [ 10.522781] hdc: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 [ 10.523076] hdc: UDMA/33 mode selected [ 10.523695] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 [ 10.532219] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 [ 10.571264] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10 [ 10.571264] PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered [ 10.571264] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [ 10.571264] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64 [ 10.591005] No dock devices found. [ 11.149852] e1000: 0000:00:03.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 08:00:27:74:27:cc [ 11.162148] SCSI subsystem initialized [ 11.210906] libata version 3.00 loaded. [ 11.278916] e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection [ 11.477994] hda: max request size: 128KiB [ 11.478083] hda: 16777216 sectors (8589 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=16644/16/63 [ 11.537609] hda: cache flushes supported [ 11.537832] hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > [ 11.644436] hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache [ 11.644717] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 12.598276] PM: Starting manual resume from disk [ 12.803507] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem. [ 12.803581] EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. [ 15.699406] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 15.699768] EXT3-fs: hda1: orphan cleanup on readonly fs [ 15.701524] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 188057 [ 15.701849] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 188056 [ 15.702096] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 188055 [ 15.702172] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 188054 [ 15.702248] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 188053 [ 15.702311] EXT3-fs: hda1: 5 orphan inodes deleted [ 15.702376] EXT3-fs: recovery complete. [ 15.715935] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 17.725260] udevd version 125 started [ 23.422723] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: Found 0000:00:07.0 device [ 23.422952] piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMB base address uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr [ 23.518214] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1 [ 24.144343] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input2 [ 24.177667] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] [ 24.178019] input: Sleep Button (FF) as /class/input/input3 [ 24.209570] input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input4 [ 24.297553] ACPI: Sleep Button (FF) [SLPF] [ 25.101514] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) [ 25.674248] parport_pc 00:05: reported by Plug and Play ACPI [ 25.689941] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... [ 28.668281] Adding 409616k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:409616k [ 29.080334] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal [ 30.581608] loop: module loaded [ 31.456264] fuse init (API version 7.9) [ 33.728775] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX [ 35.786317] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 35.801116] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > Roman Gelfand put forth on 1/20/2010 9:26 PM: >> Jan 20 21:59:37 mail kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-2-686 >> (Debian 2.6.26-19lenny2) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 >> 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Wed Nov 4 20:45:37 UTC >> 2009 >> My machine freezes every so often. I was wodering if there is any >> clues in kernel.log exerpts below. Thanks in advance > > Define "freezes". Post the machine brand/model/specs. > >> Jan 20 21:59:37 mail kernel: [ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 0 CPUs, 0 hotplug >> CPUs >> Jan 20 21:59:37 mail kernel: [ 0.000000] PERCPU: Allocating 37992 >> bytes of per cpu data >> Jan 20 21:59:37 mail kernel: [ 0.000000] NR_CPUS: 8, nr_cpu_ids: 1 > > This ^^ is very odd. "Allowing 0 CPUs" is very strange. Given that, this > "NR_CPUS: 8" is even more strange. > >> Jan 20 21:59:37 mail kernel: [ 0.004000] Memory: 598724k/614336k >> available (1770k kernel code, 14940k reserved, 750k data, 244k init, >> 0k highmem) > > Also very strange ^^ > > According to that above, your system has 0 smp cpus, but it has 8 cpus, and > only > one of those 8 has an ID. This also says you have ~600MB of system memory. > There is no physical combo of DIMMs that yields 600MB so we can assume you > have > motherboard video chip and the BIOS is assigning system RAM for the frame > buffer. But on a modern system, why do you have so little RAM installed? > > Unfortunately the system information provided by kern.log is incomplete. > Please > post output from dmesg so we can get a more complete picture of your system. > Your kern.log info alone is not enough to diagnose what is causing your system > to "freeze". Something to consider is that kernel issues usually cause > panics, > not freezes. If your system is freezing, or "hard locking", this is usually a > sign of: > > 1. A thermal issue > 2. Defective hardware > 3. Hardware compatibility mismatch > > For comparison to your kern.log, I have a two CPU system, each a single core > CPU: > > Jan 20 01:59:42 greer kernel: found SMP MP-table at [c00f5b90] f5b90 > Jan 20 01:59:42 greer kernel: SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs > Jan 20 01:59:42 greer kernel: NR_CPUS:2 nr_cpumask_bits:2 nr_cpu_ids:2 > nr_node_ids:1 > > -- > Stan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org