Subject: dmasound module and AWACS errors
From: Kevin M. Myer (kevin_myer@iu13.k12.pa.us)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 07:09:40 MDT
Hello,
A little bit ago I had posted that I was having problems with sendmail
being really flaky on an otherwise (mostly) stable machine. sendmail kept
crashing with Illegal instruction, Segmentation faults, and
Trace/breakpoint expression errors. I have not resolved that problem and
had no reports of anyone else with similar problems so it must be
something with my hardware.
Now, I'm experiencing a phenomenon of the Windows world - random
reboots. I go home at night with the machine running Linux and I come
to work in the morning with the machine rebooted into MacOS. Or
sometimes, the machine is just frozen and nothing except a reboot will
bring it back. I've noticed on several occasions that there is a problem
with the sound module. When the dmasound module is loaded, the following
error message is logged:
AWACS error: f
although the last character fluctuates through the hex characters
available. Just today, when I rebooted my machine and after the module
loaded, that message scrolled by forever. I was able to login and as soon
as I unloaded the dmasound module, the message stopped displaying.
I am running Mac On Linux occasionally with the sound extension installed
so I don't know if there is something getting initialized improperly when
I boot up from MacOS into Linux via BootX or what.
I would like to get a stable box though. Sad to say, I'm looking forward
to the day when our one x86 box is freed up and I can take over that as a
workstation :/
Hardware info:
8500/180
128Mb memory
YellowDog Linux Champion Server 1.2
Kernel 2.2.15-2.9.0 (I had tried 2.4.0-ac7 but it caused the machine to
act a little bit crazy - it would respond normally most of the time but
every few minutes, it would quit responding)
Latest RPMS are installed
1 Gb drive that is almost full
Just wondering if this is a reproducible kernel issue or if I have
defective hardware.
-- Kevin M. Myer Systems Administrator Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (717)-560-6140
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