Dell PowerEdge 1950 "freezes" with E1410 error using Fedora Core

[David Beecher]

I'm going to try leaving the system in run-level 3 and have xfs disabled. 
See what that does.  I'll let everyone know.

Jonathan, thanks so much for all the input.

David

Jonathan Dill wrote:
> David Beecher wrote:
>> Left TOP running the other day and "Xorg" was at the top of the list
>> when
>> it hung.  Also, am using the PERC5/i controller in a mirror+hs
>> configuration.
>>
>> Have ruled out hardware because it happens on 2 of our 1950s and we just
>> had dell replace *everything* inside one of them and it happened 10
>> minutes after the tech left.
>>
> As I mentioned in my reply off list, that triggered a memory that I had
> a similar problem with PE 1850 a couple years ago that turned out to be
> triggered by the Radeon graphics driver, that was solved by switching to
> vesa or fb or disabling X at the console.
>
> Lo and behold, I have 2 nearly identical PE 1950's, one that has this
> issue, and another that does not, and it turned out the one with the
> issues was running gdm at the console!  The one that is not running gdm
> but just a text console never has issues.  So just maybe, that is
> exactly what the problem is.  I have disabled gdm on the console and
> made sure X is not running, will see if that solves the problem.
>
> On the server that has problems, I found that adding kernel params noht
> maxcpu=1 made the system a lot more stable, but did not solve the
> problem completely.  Maybe with disabling X that will no longer be
> necessary, so the full power of the system will be available again.
>
> Running vncserver does not seem to trigger this issue, so is an
> acceptable workaround if I want to do something via the GUI.
>
> For what it's worth, both of my servers are running Ubuntu Dapper LTS
> amd64 with 2.6.15-29-amd64-server kernel.
>
> Jonathan
>
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