linux-kernel - Re: Hang in 2.6.23-rc5

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Date:	Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:29:39 +0200
From:	FD Cami <francois.cami@...e.fr>
To:	"Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>
Cc:	"charles gagalac" <charles.gagalac@...il.com>,
	"daryll q" <daryll_26m@...oo.com.ph>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hang in 2.6.23-rc5

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 22:38:28 +0200
"Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@...il.com> wrote:

> On 9/2/07, charles gagalac <charles.gagalac@...il.com> wrote:
> > On 9/2/07, daryll q wrote:
> > > Upgraded my kernel from 2.6.23-rc2 to 2.6.23-rc5.
> > >
> > >  System hangs (caps lock and scroll lock leds are both flashing).
> > >
> > >  It *randomly* happens but most of the time during after login to
> > > KDE.
> > >
> > >  I have not investigated it yet because I have not tried doing
> > > it  before.
> > >
> > >  Also the system is really not responding so I can't do much..
> > > Just hope it blue screen so I can send the error code easily :)
> >
> > i experienced hangs, with the flashing caps and scroll locks as
> > you've described, in a few of my later pulls prior to rc5.  i
> > couldn't reproduce the hangs and my logs didn't show evidence of a
> > problem.  my system under rc5, so far, hasn't hung on me.
> >
> > charles
> 
> Oh, I thought I was the only one. I also had a single hang+flashing
>  Caps & Scroll Lock with -rc5, but haven't had one since.
> 
> I had VMWare Player modules loaded at the time though, and I
>  recently rebuilt them with the any-any-patch-113 (earlier versions
>  would not build with very recent kernels).
> 
> -rc4-git2 and -git3 never hung even with VMWare modules loaded.
> 
> So I disabled the autoload of VMWare stuff. The problem has not
>  reproduced so far. My system is a Dell D610, running updated
>  Fedora 7, with Intel 915GM video chipset.

I've just had a kernel panic, running a vanilla 2.6.23-rc5, no
proprietary modules loaded, running X11 under moderate load.
2.6.23-rc[2-4] have been rock solid on the same box. I've reverted
to rc4 for now.

François
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