Now, this is one we have an issue with: it's got a bttv card, and motion
running on it. It's a Dell PE R720. For some reason, it has never liked
the card: 20 min after reboot, it says fatal bus error... but nothing's
wrong, and it runs just fine. Well, expect that we need to keep it on the
2.6.32-431.20.3 kernel, because *everything* later, it randomly starts
rebooting, several times a day.
But we've never had anything like this, and I've never seen anything
like
this: the bttv module was throwing a ton of IRQ lockup errors. Restarting
motion didn't help. So I was wondering if the issue was with the bttv
kernel module, so I rmmoded that, then modprobe bttv... and that was all
she wrote. The system lost network connectivity.
Ok, I go over to the rack, and plug in the monitor-on-a-stick, and that's
where it got very strange, and I've never seen anything like this: I turn
up the monitor... and see it announcing it had seen a new USB device (the
keyboard)... and no login, it kept printing
copying data [<percentage done>%]
When it hit 100%, it rebooted.
So - has anyone ever seen this behavior? Anyone have an idea what it was
copying?
mark
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> So - has anyone ever seen this behavior? Anyone have an idea what it was > copying?Isn't that just it dealing with the kdump? jh
On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 09:20 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Now, this is one we have an issue with: it's got a bttv card, and motion > running on it. It's a Dell PE R720. For some reason, it has never liked > the card: 20 min after reboot, it says fatal bus error... but nothing's > wrong, and it runs just fine. Well, expect that we need to keep it on the > 2.6.32-431.20.3 kernel, because *everything* later, it randomly starts > rebooting, several times a day. > > But we've never had anything like this, and I've never seen anything like > this: the bttv module was throwing a ton of IRQ lockup errors. Restarting > motion didn't help. So I was wondering if the issue was with the bttv > kernel module, so I rmmoded that, then modprobe bttv... and that was all > she wrote. The system lost network connectivity. > > Ok, I go over to the rack, and plug in the monitor-on-a-stick, and that's > where it got very strange, and I've never seen anything like this: I turn > up the monitor... and see it announcing it had seen a new USB device (the > keyboard)... and no login, it kept printing > copying data [<percentage done>%] > When it hit 100%, it rebooted. > > So - has anyone ever seen this behavior? Anyone have an idea what it was > copying? > > mark >Hi, What is the make/model of the card? Are you supplying options when loading the bttv module? Regards Phil -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20160323/afa13284/attachment-0001.sig>
Phil Wyett wrote:> On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 09:20 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Now, this is one we have an issue with: it's got a bttv card, and motion >> running on it. It's a Dell PE R720. For some reason, it has never liked >> the card: 20 min after reboot, it says fatal bus error... but nothing's >> wrong, and it runs just fine. Well, expect that we need to keep it on >> the 2.6.32-431.20.3 kernel, because *everything* later, it randomly starts >> rebooting, several times a day.<snip>> > What is the make/model of the card?lspci says: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)> > Are you supplying options when loading the bttv module?On and off, I've been googling to find if there's something I can tell it, or the kernel on boot. Currently, I have, in /etc/modprobe.d/bttv: options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 options bttv gbuffers=16 card=98,98,98,98,98,98,98,98 radio=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 tuner=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 chroma_agc=1 combfilter=2 full_luma_range=1 coring=1 which is something I got from googling as to how to get it working. Think there's something in that - the first line? that is not a good thing? mark mark