On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:09:11AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >For the past few weeks my system frequently freezes or starts in (none) > >tty1 on bootup. The freezes come at different points in the bootup > >sequence. When this happens I can recover by booting up with bbc-2.1 > >from a cd, running e2fsck -f on each partition (occasionally inodes are > >incorrect, often no problems are found) and then rebooting from the hard > >drive. When the system is rebooted in this way there are no problems in > >running any of the programs I use. I have been unable to pinpoint the > >source of this bootup problem. > > > >The system is testing and the kernel is 2.4.22 compiled with the > >/mm/mmap.c patch. I regularly run apt-get dist-upgrade. > > > >memtest is installed, finds no problems with memory. > >smartmontools is installed, the long test finds no problems with the > >hard drive. > >clamscan run recursively from / finds no viruses > >chkrootkit finds nothing > > > >I believe the problem started when I compiled kernel-source-0.6.0-test9 > >and used this kernel to take advantage of the usb 2 speed of a usb dvd > >burner. This worked fine but with no wireless lan access. In an > >attempt to solve this I downloaded and compiled > >linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre10 but still had no wireless access. > > > >The one consistant symptom is the message > > > > p80211knetdev_hard_start-xinit: Tx attempt prior to association, > >frame dropped > > > >which is repeated many times during the shutdown proceedure frequently > >interrupting the normal sequence of shutdown messages. Apparently some > >record is stored that affects the next bootup attempt. > > > >I have attempted to correct this by recompiling the 2.4.22 kernel after > >first running mrproper and by then using apt-get install to get the > >debian version of linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0 and reconfiguring and installing > >this program again after first running make mrproper. This has not > >solved the problem. > > > >I would greatly appreciate any insights as to what to try next or any > >observations about things I have done wrong or failed to do. > > > >Tom George > > > > > > You might try booting a few times from a Knoppix CD, just to eliminate > hardware problems. > > I started having similar problems a few weeks ago. I finally tried > Knoppix, and found it froze the box also, and after some more diagnosis > (including swapping out the processor) came to the conclusion that my > mobo had turned south on me. But for quite a while I thought it was > software-related; it "felt" software-related. > > -- > Kent > Interesting. Looking back in my log book I find I installed a new motherboard and cpu (Albatron KX400-8XV and Athlon XP2000) on Nov. 7th and kernel-source-0.6.0-test9 on Nov. 9th. Installed module-init-install on Nov. 11th as this was needed to load the ehci module. The first note of a boot up problem was on Nov. 12th.
Could there be a motherboard problem? I have used Albatron KX400 series motherboards in other computers with no problems but, interestingly, I recall seeing a message regarding an unknown southbridge when booting up from the bbc-2.1 cd. Tom > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
