From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 16: 3:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8901237B8A9 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:03:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA38615; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <019801bfe542$e4ff44c0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Francesco Casadei" , "freebsd-questions mailing list" Subject: Re: stray irq 7 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:03:25 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Today while printing I got this error message on root console: > >Jul 3 20:02:16 casimirhost /kernel: stray irq 7 >Jul 3 20:02:16 casimirhost /kernel: stray irq 7 I had this mysterious message pop up 3 times within a one hour period last week on my 4.0 machine at home. Then 2 days later it popped up once on my server at work. Both machines have different hardware, so it's not a common hardware fault. Besides these two incidences, I've never seen it before or since in 2 years of using FreeBSD... A check of the mailing list archive shows that people have been experiencing these stray irq 7's for at least the past 3 years, and no one really knows what causes them. Apparently, the error message is generated when a system gets an IRQ 7, but no handler actually services it. Some people (me, for one) have printers active on IRQ 7, others don't... It's a classic case of gremlins in the works...but in any case, appears to be benign. --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message