Bug#284477: Same with IBM Thinkcentre A50
The same thing happens with the IBM Thinkcentre A50, MT-M 8089-74G.
With 2.6.8-2-686 it seizes: the clock starts jumping forward and backwards
(between 16:01 and 17:12, the time I discovered that), the screen blanks out
(since, suddenly, the system has spent 1 hour and 11 minutes idle ;-)), and
even simple commands take ages to execute. Finally, it hangs completely.
Fun observation: if I launch a program from KDE's panel, the cursor gets
the bouncing icon, but it doesn't bounce; when I press any key it advances a
frame in its bouncing.
These are the last messages in /var/log/syslog before starting with the
poltergeist thing:
[standard bootup messages]
Mar 16 16:11:06 pitagoras kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
Mar 16 16:11:06 pitagoras lpd[3107]: restarted
Mar 16 16:11:08 pitagoras postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
Mar 16 16:11:08 pitagoras postfix/master[3200]: daemon started -- version 2.1.5
Mar 16 16:11:08 pitagoras kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10
Mar 16 16:11:08 pitagoras kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02ff020(lo)
Mar 16 16:11:08 pitagoras kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Mar 16 16:11:09 pitagoras xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ (unreadable)
Mar 16 16:11:09 pitagoras /usr/sbin/cron[3347]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
Mar 16 16:11:09 pitagoras /usr/sbin/cron[3348]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
Mar 16 16:11:09 pitagoras /usr/sbin/cron[3348]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
Mar 16 16:11:09 pitagoras xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable)
Mar 16 16:11:10 pitagoras Xprt_64: No matching visual for __GLcontextMode with visual class = 0 (32775), nplanes = 8
Mar 16 16:11:11 pitagoras kernel: [drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0: Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device
Mar 16 16:11:11 pitagoras kernel: mtrr: base(0xf0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x800000) boundary
Mar 16 16:11:16 pitagoras kdm_greet[3512]: Can't open default user face
Mar 16 16:11:19 pitagoras kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Mar 16 16:12:02 pitagoras gconfd (jtarrio-3672): comenzando (versión 2.8.1), pid 3672 usuario "jtarrio"
Mar 16 16:12:02 pitagoras gconfd (jtarrio-3672): Se resolvio la direccion "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" a una fuente de configuracion de solo lectura en la posicion 0
Mar 16 16:12:02 pitagoras gconfd (jtarrio-3672): Se resolvio la direccion "xml:readwrite:/home/jtarrio/.gconf" a una fuente de configuracion escribible en la posicion 1
Mar 16 16:12:02 pitagoras gconfd (jtarrio-3672): Se resolvio la direccion "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" a una fuente de configuracion de solo lectura en la posicion 2
Mar 16 16:17:01 pitagoras /USR/SBIN/CRON[3682]: (root) CMD ( run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Mar 16 16:31:05 pitagoras -- MARK --
Mar 16 16:51:05 pitagoras -- MARK --
I'd like to call your attention upon the messages at 16:11:10 and 16:11:11.
I believe they appear when X is loaded (for kdm). However, another
Thinkcentre we're temporarily using as a firewall, with no X, suffers from
the same ailment (in fact, it is the first one we noticed it on).
I haven't seen 2.4.27-1-386 exhibit this behaviour yet. The equivalent 686
version is to be tested today (will report).
A BIOS update is useless since the version on IBM's support pages is the
same one the computers came loaded with.
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Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org/
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