Bug#403606: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: Seemingly random system freezes
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686
Version: 2.6.18-7
Severity: important
The system seems to freeze quite randomly. The only way out is a hard reset.
Everything works perfectly under 2.6.16 kernels, however in those versions the JMB361
driver is disabled because of "outstanding" problems.
I am continiously trying to recreate the freezes with heavy load, combinations of
processes running, OpenGL games, heavy i/o operations. Unfortunately I haven't found
any consistency yet.
I myself haven't been able to find anything related in the system logs yet. There
aren't any entries made just before the freeze or continious error messages flooding
the logs. Upon request I can provide (parts) of them.
I had similar problems in 2.6.18-1 and 2.6.18-2 which I installed from the sid
repository. Those freezes appeared to be linked to the JMB361 driver, which is known
to be troublesome. The freezes are less frequent now than with these kernels, but I
have to note I switched from a PATA to SATA dvd-ram drive to circumvent the JMB361
controller on my MSI P965 Neo F motherboard even the windows drivers for the JMB chip
are buggy.
--
Thijmen de Gooijer
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.85c tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre3-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
-- debconf information:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-3-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-3-686:
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