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Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:42:29 -0800 From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> To: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> CC: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: System hang from holding left shift key While absentmindedly holding down the left shift key as I was thinking about my next input, I froze the keyboard. After 3 seconds, the system sounded a high beep, and then a low beep after another 3 seconds. At that point, no key entry had any effect. From the beeps, one might conclude that the input buffer is full, but a CTRL/U did not clear it. Fortunately, a short press on the power button shut down the machine cleanly. I don't know if this is a regression. I found it in v2.6.28-rc2, but the oldest kernel that I could test (v2.6.24) already has the problem. When the beeps occur, a stack dump is as follows: Pid: 2989, comm: Xorg Not tainted 2.6.28-rc2-Linus-00473-g67d1128-dirty #2 Call Trace: [<ffffffff803957ce>] kd_mksound+0x69/0xa9 [<ffffffff8039196c>] vt_ioctl+0x3c4/0x1744 [<ffffffff8038b097>] tty_ioctl+0x793/0x7fa [<ffffffff8025c6c0>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff8044f94a>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3d/0x4c [<ffffffff802bf102>] vfs_ioctl+0x2f/0x7d [<ffffffff802bf4fe>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3ae/0x3e0 [<ffffffff8020c07c>] ? sysret_check+0x27/0x62 [<ffffffff802bf577>] sys_ioctl+0x47/0x6a [<ffffffff8020c04b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Thanks, Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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