Re: ZX6000 hangs on boot of Debian 10.0

Hi John! 

On 10/7/20 11:39 AM, John Vakonakis wrote:
> I'm new to this list so apologies if this is well covered ground. I
> recently got a ZX6000 box (2x1.3GHz McKinley, 4GB RAM) and installed the
> most recent Debian image (2020-08-19). Installation went fine, but the
> system hangs at boot after GRUB loads the kernel (5.7.0-2-mckinley) at
> seemingly random points. Sometimes the hang is immediate as soon as ramdisk
> is loaded, sometime it makes it for ~20 seconds. Most often there is no
> error message, but occasionally I see this message:
> " watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s!"

I suggest using an older image, preferably with a 4.19.x kernel which are known
to be more stable on some machines [1].

Adrian

> [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-07-16/debian-10.0-ia64-NETINST-1.iso