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I installed ubuntu (server) on a IBM ThinkCenter. It worksfine, but after some time working it starts working TOOOOOOOO slowly and strange things start happening.
Keyboard doesn't repeat typing if you keep a key pressed. And if it beeps, it doesn't stop beeping. It would eventually stop (after a random amountof time).
This is dmesg (and I find nothing strange there).
Code:
00a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000f770000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000f770000 - 000000000f77a000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000f77a000 - 000000000f780000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000f780000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
247MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f65b0
On node 0 totalpages: 63344
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 59248 pages, LIFO batch:14
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6660
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x060400d0 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0f775268
ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM THINKCEN 0x060400d0 PTL 0x00000001) @ 0x0f779ee2
ACPI: TCPA (v001 IBM THINKCEN 0x060400d0 PTL 0x00000001) @ 0x0f779f56
ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD APIC 0x060400d0 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0f779f88
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x060400d0 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x0f779fd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM THINKCEN 0x060400d0 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda5 ro quiet splash
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
Detected 2794.901 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 243612k/253376k available (1436k kernel code, 9092k reserved, 754k data, 224k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 5537.79 BogoMIPS (lpj=2768896)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 0000441d 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=0 pin2=-1
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4248k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd98d, last bus=3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Via IRQ fixup
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.SLOT._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
** PCI interrupts are no longer routed automatically. If this
** causes a device to stop working, it is probably because the
** driver failed to call pci_enable_device(). As a temporary
** workaround, the "pci=routeirq" argument restores the old
** behavior. If this argument makes the device work again,
** please email the output of "lspci" to bjorn.helgaas@hp.com
** so I can fix the driver.
Simple Boot Flag at 0x35 set to 0x1
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1128516584.793:0): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, kswapd0 not stopped
Strange, kseriod not stopped
done
ACPI wakeup devices:
USB1 USB2 USB3 USB4 USBE SLOT KBC COMA
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4248KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (78 C)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1810-0x1817, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1818-0x181f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HDS728080PLAT20, ATA DISK drive
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 156312576 sectors (80032 MB) w/1719KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 >
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8482B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
Stopping tasks: ==|
Freeing memory... done (455 pages freed)
Restarting tasks... done
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 979924k swap on /dev/hda10. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
Capability LSM initialized
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
device-mapper: 4.3.0-ioctl (2004-09-30) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda11, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda9, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
input: PC Speaker
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.10-5-386
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 196M
agpgart: Detected 8060K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 16, io base 0x1820
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x1840
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x1860
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 16, io base 0x1880
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, pci mem 0xe8080000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 26 Oct 2004
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Evaluate _OSC Set fails. Status = 0x0005
pciehp: add_host_bridge: status 5
pciehp: Fails to gain control of native hot-plug
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
hw_random: RNG not detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [04b3:310b] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49766 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
eth0: VIA Rhine III at 0x2000, 00:08:54:0e:f0:cf, IRQ 21.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.2.3-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
e100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xe8100000, irq 20, MAC addr 00:11:25:6B:C1:69
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02f0500(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1979 buckets, 15832 max) - 336 bytes per conntrack
Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.5 (C)1999-2002 Maxim Krasnyansky
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 left promiscuous mode
eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
device eth0 left promiscuous mode
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3
Maybe i can install a "failsafe" image? What packge would that be?
Nothing else in log? It quite obscure.
Hmmm are you sure it is not just an issue about the keyboard? I mean, is ALL the system really slow or is just the keyboard?
My first guess would be to desactivate "apic" giving "noapic" option at boot, as strange clueless bugs seems to always be caused by that thing.
Then... well, I would recompile the kernel by hand , as I don't trust big fat distro-kernel that come with everything, this may help if something useless cause the bug, but I wouldn't try that if you are new to kernel compilation.
I haven't restarted yet. But what could grub have done that corrected it?
I modified the menu.lst file (added noapic), then ran grub. From the console I grub console I ran "reboot" and then nothing happened (my mistake I guess). :-D
But after I came out of grub, the problem had dessapeared. It didn't boot at all, but normal box behavior was back.
Also, there are two more messages in dmes:
Code:
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
Strange... something wrong with a hardware device? Or maybe a bad DMA problem? What is the output of hdparm -vi /dev/hdXY (XY being your cdrom and harddrive) ?
[edit]you were writing while I was posting back[edit]
Quote:
It has worked pretty well so far after booting with noapic. Hope that does make it. :-)
I hope so. I've seen lot of problem about APIC, I really wonder why this is on by default... I don't even remember what this is used for.. it's like a new "BIOS-managed" IRQ thing if I remember right... It fails half the time from my experience, and always with dark and silly error (like keyboards/mouses failing for no reason or crashes while probing hdd).
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IBM box is working too slowly
