Bug#614774: hald-addon-storage causes random lockups by polling optical drive

[Gergely Kiss <mail.gery@gmail.com>]

Hi Jonathan,

thanks for your reply! Fortunately, the problem is no longer present,
it turned out that it was caused by a hardware failure. After
migrating all data to software RAID and removing the HW RAID
controller from the system, the issue never happened again (all other
hw components remained the same), I think it's safe to close the
report.


Thank you,
Gergely Kiss

On 10 February 2012 01:57, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gergely Kiss wrote:
>
>> The polling mechanism used by hald-addon-storage sometimes makes the system
>> unresponsive.
> [...]
>> - the system responds to ICMP echo requests and TCP-connections
>>   can be made successfuly - the TCP/IP stack seems to be working
>> - running processes don't get any CPU time
>> - the crash dump generated by the kernel is never logged, it can only be
>>   seen on screen
>> - typing or switching between VTs isn't working. The only thing that can be
>>   done when the issue happens is rebooting the machine by using SysR
>>   commands or
>>   by pressing the reboot button
>
> Please attach output from "reportbug --template linux-image-$(uname -r)", so
> we can get to know your hardware.
>
> It would also be useful to get a complete log of what creates this state.
> If you can get a full kernel log (e.g., by using a serial console or
> netconsole), that would be helpful.
>
> Thanks and sorry for the slow response,
> Jonathan