05 Mar 2015 Install Debian Spike CPU0: AMD Athlon Insert "Debian 8.3.0 i386 Net Install" CD Select boot device CDU5211 19:59 11:05 +00:00 debian installer boot menu install language English country United States keymap American English detecting hardware 20:01 11:06 11:07 Configure network eth0: 3Com 3c905C-tx/TX-M [Tornado] eth1: NVIDIA nForce Ethernet controller eth1 hostname spike domain name figment root password Full name for user Toby Martin username toby Getting time from network timeserver Timezone Hawaii 20:02 11:14 Detecting Hardware ... Loading additional components ... 11:15 Partition disks guided - use entire disk disk to partition SCSI1 (0,0,0) sda - 120 GB ATA WDC WD1200BB-00DAA0 scheme all in one partition 1 primary 119.0 GB B ext4 / 5 logical 1.1 GB swap swap Finish and write write changes do disk? Yes 20:03 11:17 creating ext3 files system for / in partition #1 hda ... Installing base system 20:11 11:24 Configure package manager mirror country United States # archive mirror debian.osuosl.org archive mirror mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu HTTP proxy blank Configuring apt 20:11 13:28 20:15 13:33 Configuring popularity contest participate yes Choose software to install Desktop desktop environment yes GNOME Xfce yes KDE Cinnamon MATE LXDE Web server yes Print Server yes SSH server yes Standard system utils yes 20:16 11:36 Select and install software Retrieving files ... 20:17 11:55 leave 20:57 12:26 Install GRUB on MBR yes /dev/sda (ata-WDC_WD1200BB-WMACK1449849) Finishing install 12:29 CD auto ejects ... Installation complete, boot new system continue Select boot device WDC WD1200BB-00DAA0 Found a note: 28 Nov 2009 New Monitor Spike Gave Kris the monitor that was on Spike. Bought a new 24 inch monitor, could not get Spike to display 1080x???. Realized that the video coming from the motherboard shares RAM with the system, and does not do 1080. Dug out ould AGP video card. All works now! Booted to GUI ssh 192.168.200.101 # Sometime later Message from syslogd@spike at Mar 5 19:27:44 ... kernel:[ 1456.072001] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [Xorg:730] Message from syslogd@spike at Mar 5 19:27:44 ... kernel:[ 1456.072001] CPU: 0 PID: 730 Comm: Xorg Not tainted 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 Message from syslogd@spike at Mar 5 19:27:44 ... kernel:[ 1456.072001] Hardware name: System Manufacturer System Name/A7N266VM, BIOS ASUS A7N266-VM ACPI BIOS Rev 1004/AA 08/23/2002 Message from syslogd@spike at Mar 5 19:27:44 ... kernel:[ 1456.072001] task: df6a5010 ti: dd842000 task.ti: dd842000 Message from syslogd@spike at Mar 5 19:27:44 ... kernel:[ 1456.072001] Stack: Message from syslogd@spike at Mar 5 19:27:44 ... kernel:[ 1456.072001] Call Trace: Message from syslogd@spike at Mar 5 19:27:44 ... kernel:[ 1456.072001] Code: 90 3d ff ff 03 00 77 21 3d 00 00 01 00 76 0a 0f b7 d0 ed c3 90 8d 74 26 00 ba ef 60 58 c1 e8 2e ff ff ff b8 ff ff ff ff c3 8b 00 90 8d 74 26 00 81 fa ff ff 03 00 89 d1 77 1e 81 fa 00 00 01 systemctl set-default multi-user.target Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/default.target to /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target. /sbin/reboot # It took a couple mnutes to start the boot process. # http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2205211 In the end I slowly became suspicious of the power supply in this computer. It is hard to quantify exactly why, but the suggestions from "pqwoerituytrueiwoq" got me looking at the voltage levels provided by the "sensors" linux command-line program, and the voltages reported by the BIOS, and somehow I decided that it was worth replacing the power supply. I bought a small (500W) new power supply made by what I feel is a reputable company and made the swap. GREAT NEWS: After replacing the power supply, the crashes completely stopped! I wanted to wait a while just to be sure, but it is now a few weeks since the new powersupply went in, and I haven't had a single crash since. The power supply is not something that I would normally worry about, but in this case it totally fixed my problem. Thanks to those who read my post, and especially to those who responded. # http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2205211&page=2 This might help someone: I had this same problem on an Asus desktop PC that of course came with windows pre-installed and worked perfectly well (well, you know what I mean) with windows 8. On Ubuntu 14.04, it would run for some period, and then lock up with the CPU Stuck for 23s message. I tried the following: Upgrade to 14.10 Try the nvidia proprietary drivers replace the power supply with a premium 500W unit All with no success. It would run for no more than about a day without crashing. Eventually I took out the nvidia graphics card and fell back to the motherboard integrated Intel graphics. Works great, and is perfectly stable. In case someone else finds this, a kernel upgrade fixed a similar problem for me. I had a JBOD that was attached to the system through a SAS3 controller throwing these CPU Softlock errors on boot. I had Ubuntu 14.04.2 kernel version 3.16.0-30, and doing a "apt -y upgrade" ended me up at kernel 3.16.0-49, and that solved the problem. ################ apt -y upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. sensors No sensors found! Make sure you loaded all the kernel drivers you need. Try sensors-detect to find out which these are. sensors-detect Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Just press ENTER to continue: Driver `w83781d': * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at 5500' Busdriver `i2c_amd756', I2C address 0x2d (and 0x48 0x49) Chip `Asus AS99127F (rev.1)' (confidence: 8) To load everything that is needed, add this to /etc/modules: #----cut here---- # Chip drivers w83781d #----cut here---- If you have some drivers built into your kernel, the list above will contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones! Do you want to add these lines automatically to /etc/modules? (yes/NO)yes Successful! /sbin/reboot sensors as99127f-i2c-0-2d Adapter: SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at 5500 in0: +1.78 V (min = +1.79 V, max = +2.27 V) ALARM in1: +1.78 V (min = +2.24 V, max = +2.74 V) ALARM in2: +3.31 V (min = +2.96 V, max = +3.62 V) in3: +2.93 V (min = +2.67 V, max = +3.26 V) in4: +3.10 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +3.58 V) in5: +4.08 V (min = +2.42 V, max = +3.62 V) ALARM in6: +4.08 V (min = +2.66 V, max = +3.98 V) ALARM fan1: 4927 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2) fan2: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2) fan3: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2) temp1: +35.0°C (high = +105.0°C, hyst = +0.0°C) temp2: +47.0°C (high = +127.0°C, hyst = +127.0°C) temp3: -31.5°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) cpu0_vid: +1.850 V beep_enable: enabled 06 Mar 2016 13:09 startx leave 15:25 # desktop still running. sensors as99127f-i2c-0-2d Adapter: SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at 5500 in0: +1.78 V (min = +1.79 V, max = +2.27 V) ALARM in1: +1.78 V (min = +2.24 V, max = +2.74 V) ALARM in2: +3.31 V (min = +2.96 V, max = +3.62 V) in3: +2.93 V (min = +2.67 V, max = +3.26 V) in4: +3.10 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +3.58 V) in5: +4.08 V (min = +2.42 V, max = +3.62 V) ALARM in6: +4.08 V (min = +2.66 V, max = +3.98 V) ALARM fan1: 4963 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2) fan2: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2) fan3: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2) temp1: +36.0°C (high = +105.0°C, hyst = +0.0°C) temp2: +50.0°C (high = +127.0°C, hyst = +127.0°C) temp3: -31.5°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) cpu0_vid: +1.850 V beep_enable: enabled 15:52 leave 20:43 sensors as99127f-i2c-0-2d Adapter: SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at 5500 in0: +1.78 V (min = +1.79 V, max = +2.27 V) ALARM in1: +1.78 V (min = +2.24 V, max = +2.74 V) ALARM in2: +3.31 V (min = +2.96 V, max = +3.62 V) in3: +2.93 V (min = +2.67 V, max = +3.26 V) in4: +3.10 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +3.58 V) in5: +4.08 V (min = +2.42 V, max = +3.62 V) ALARM in6: +4.08 V (min = +2.66 V, max = +3.98 V) ALARM fan1: 4963 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2) fan2: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2) fan3: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2) temp1: +36.0°C (high = +105.0°C, hyst = +0.0°C) temp2: +49.0°C (high = +127.0°C, hyst = +127.0°C) temp3: -31.5°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) 20:44 keave ### HERE Boots to comand line startx still errors # GUI works # still in GUI system-logout ler login: # back to command line ###################################