Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:03:25 -0700 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "Francesco Casadei" <fcasadei@monrif.net>, "freebsd-questions mailing list" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: stray irq 7 Message-ID: <019801bfe542$e4ff44c0$0200000a@danco>
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>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 <snip> 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
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