Re: Sarge Automatically reboots

From: Murali Krishnan Ganapathy (gmurali_at_cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: 08/11/04

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    Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:37:20 -0500
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>

    An update. My /etc/hotplug/blacklist did have an i810_tco as well as
    i8xx_tco, but the module was being loaded anyway. The module is called
    i810-tco (- v/s _) and after adding i810-tco to the blacklist file, I am
    no longer having the reboot problems.

    Now, I enabled X and now the keyboard and mouse seem to be
    non-functional. If I stay in text mode, things are working well. As soon
    as I go to X, both kbd and mouse become unresponsive. Even
    Alt-Ctrl-Backspace doesn't work (did not check Alt-Ctrl-Del). Even
    though I have a wireless keyboard (and normal PS2 mouse), the keyboard
    is also connected only via the PS/2 port.

    I did see many references to mouse and kbd in hotplug scripts, and can
    that be the cause here?

    Thanks again for solving the i810-tco problem.

    - Murali

    Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

    > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
    >
    >> Till last week, my Debian/Testing installation was working very well.
    >>Last week I did an "apt-get upgrade". For the last few days, every time
    >>I boot, it goes all the way to the login prompt (disabled X for now),
    >>and even lets me login. After about 1-2 minutes of uptime, it just
    >>reboots. No Kernel Panic, no oops, no nothing. I also have a Windows
    >>installation on the same machine, which is working fine (can rule out
    >>hardware issues?).
    >>
    >>Here is a list of things I have tried (and none helped)
    >>
    >>* Single user mode (rule out initscripts)
    >>* linux acpi=off apm=power_off (rule out power management)
    >>* Boot into knoppix v 3.3 (works without a problem) and do an
    >> "apt-get upgrade" of the debian installation (on the hard disk).
    >>* Use a older kernel (2.4.25-1-386), instead of my usual 2.4.26-1-686.
    >>* I have also updated the kernel image, etc. (after going through a few
    >> hoops) to run mkinitrd from knoppix)
    >>
    >>All these have failed. Any suggestions?
    >>
    >>I have a Intel 2.4GHz processor, 512 MB RAM.
    >
    >
    > Make sure the module 810_tco is not being loaded by hotplug braindamage.
    > Boot in emergency mode, remove the module from the disk (or configure
    > hotplug to blacklist it). That should do it.
    >
    > Some boards malfunction with it, and the watchdog triggers, effectively
    > rebooting your machine without any sort of warning.
    >
    > Of course, that only holds if you have an Intel chipset.
    > 

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