FC2 hangs on soft reboot

[Hannes Mayer]

Hi Joe!

Joe Robertson wrote:
> On Sunday, June 20, 2004 1:22 PM, Hannes Mayer wrote
>>Joe,
>>
>>which kernel do you use ?
> 
> I'm using the released version - 2.6.5-1.358

Try upgrading to 2.6.6-1.435 and see if the problem is still there...

>>When I read the subject line, the problem with the older 2.6 
>>kernel came to my mind, where the kernel sent a standby 
>>signal to the harddrives and some harddrives interpreted this 
>>as shutdown. When rebooting the BIOS didn't spin up the 
>>drives and the system didn't boot. This might be unrelated - 
>>just my 2 eurocents ;-)
>>
> 
> 
> I forgot to mention that if I do a ctl-alt-del at the point
> where it hangs, it will reboot successfully.  Normally I'd 
> simply ignore this but I'm planning a very large deployment
> in a remote location so I can't tolerate this behavior.
> 
> Also, if I configure the system with a single CPU and disable
> hyperthreading, it reboots just fine with a soft reboot.
> If I add a second CPU or enable hyperthreading, it fails on
> reboot.

I've no experience with systems > 1 CPU, so can't help here much...
Try upgrading the kernel...sometimes this does a wonder ;-)

Cheers,
Hannes.