Obscure errors in dmsg, system instability

[Doug White]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Eirik Oeverby wrote:

> for some time I have been experiencing weird hangs on one of my servers.
> When it happens, I can still ping it, but I cannot make any connections
> or type anything on existing ssh connections. Serial console is also
> dead, however I can enter the kernel debugger and call cpu_reset() to
> reboot. Upon reboot all is fine again.
>
> Now I discover that my dmsg output contains a few of these:
>
> ahc0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x9
> ahc0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
>
> and
>
> ahc0: PCI error Interrupt at seqaddr = 0x8
> ahc0: Data Parity Error Detected during address or write data phase
>
> Thing is - there's nothing connected to the Adaptec. It is enabled, but
> not used.

Is something sharing an interrupt with that device?

PCI bus errors are generally Bad News .. either some device or the mobo is
inroducing errors.

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