Re: Obscure errors in dmsg, system instability

From: Doug White (dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com)
Date: 09/23/04

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    Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:15:19 -0700 (PDT)
To: Eirik Oeverby <ltning@anduin.net>

    On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Eirik Oeverby wrote:

    > for some time I have been experiencing weird hangs on one of my servers.
    > When it happens, I can still ping it, but I cannot make any connections
    > or type anything on existing ssh connections. Serial console is also
    > dead, however I can enter the kernel debugger and call cpu_reset() to
    > reboot. Upon reboot all is fine again.
    >
    > Now I discover that my dmsg output contains a few of these:
    >
    > ahc0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9
    > ahc0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
    >
    > and
    >
    > ahc0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8
    > ahc0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
    >
    > Thing is - there's nothing connected to the Adaptec. It is enabled, but
    > not used.

    Is something sharing an interrupt with that device?

    PCI bus errors are generally Bad News .. either some device or the mobo is
    inroducing errors. 

    -- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
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