Re: APIC Error, X locked up

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

If you run dmesg after booting, do you see any warnings about
unsupported APIC?  I would consider booting with "noapic" kernel option
and see if your problems disappear.  There appears to be an APIC bug in
certain AMD chipsets.

/Brian/

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 16:17, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running RHEL 3 WS, and it's up2date. Before this, the machine crashed 
> (locked up, can't ping, can't SSH) when I logged out from X. So after reboot, 
> I ssh to the machine from another machine, and run "tail -f 
> /var/log/messages" so I can see what happens when it crash again
> 
> So right now, X server locked up, I can't switch to another TTY 
> (CTRL-ALT-F1/F2 does not work). But I still can ping and ssh to it from 
> another machine. Here is the output I got from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jun 12 15:43:49 pathfinder modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
> char-major-10-134
> Jun 12 15:44:00 pathfinder kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(02)
> Jun 12 15:44:00 pathfinder kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> Jun 12 15:46:13 pathfinder kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(02)
> Jun 12 15:46:13 pathfinder kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> Jun 12 15:52:03 pathfinder kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(02)
> Jun 12 15:52:03 pathfinder kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> Jun 12 15:52:19 pathfinder kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(02)
> Jun 12 15:52:19 pathfinder kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)
> 
> What does this mean?
> 
> Info that maybe related: I use nVidia GE Force FX 5500 graphic card AGP 8x, 
> and use the nVidia driver from nvidia.com 
> Another sympton, when I logged out X before (I run in runlevel 3 by default), 
> I can't see any text in my terminal, just a blank black screen. But then I 
> typed "startx" on the keyboard, and X started again. So it's kinda erratic. 
> 
> General spec of the machine (if it any helps):
> MB: Gigabyte amd 760 mpx
> Dual AMD MP 2600+
> 2x 512M Kingston DDR 2100 ECC Registered
> Software RAID 5 (3 HD on Promise controller)
> The OS is installed separately on a single HD
> 
> Anyone that can help with this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks 
> RDB
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