Re: 2.6.21-rc2-mm1

["Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

On 04/03/07, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/03/07, Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> wrote:
> > > I'll dig some more and try to catch some data.
> >
> > Ok. I started the system and it froze after approx. 5 min. of uptime.
> >
> > Scenario:
> >
> > - I logged into kde
> > - started aterm
> > - insmod netconsole ... blah blah
> > - started azureus (downloading 1 torrent)
> > - started firefox (pandora.com -> flash playing music)
> > - started aterm
> > - started kmail
> >
> > -> fool around a bit and ... whoops -> system is frozen
> >
> > Symptoms:
> > - I left the computer running frozen for 5~10 minutes just in case it suddenly 'regain consciousness'
> > - num lock, caps lock do not make the leds on/off (looks like dead keyboard)
> > - unable to switch to console
> > - I issued sysrq-p, sysrq-t, the computer still looks dead but surprise! netconsole worked and I managed
> >   to capture some data, no oops though
> > - sysrq-s does not work -> only "SysRq : Emergency Sync" gets printed ("Emergency Sync complete" does
> >   not appear)
> > - hard drive I/O is dead (led not blinking when sysrq-s or whatever)
> > - computer is totaly unresponsive and issuing sysrq looks like playing with dead computer
> > - the only thing to at this stage is is hard reset
> >
> > Almost each time the frozen system looks a bit different. So not sure where to look exactly. Sometimes
> > the keyboard 'works' and I can switch to console, sometimes the box looks totally dead, sometimes it
> > loops some short fragment of music and makes weird sounds, sometimes azureus still works (wifi traffic led
> > is blinking), sometimes CPU is eaten up, sometimes not. The common denominator could be no hard drive I/O
> > activity.
> >
> > I read Michal P. report and it might be that we hit the same bug here.
> >
> > Below you'll find the output and current config attached.
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Loglevel set to 7
> > SysRq : Show Regs
> >
> > Pid: 12322, comm:          firefox-bin
>
> It looks familiar.

BTW. I think that this might be a problem with 2.6.21-rc2-mm1 and flashplayer9.

Regards,
Michal

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