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Bug#414322: marked as done (linux-source-2.6.18: kernel freeze on disk i/o (regression))

Your message dated Mon, 26 May 2008 13:07:36 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #414322,
regarding linux-source-2.6.18: kernel freeze on disk i/o (regression)
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Package: linux-source-2.6.18
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11
Severity: important


Hello,

I have recently dist-upgraded my workstation from Sarge to Etch. As usual,
this operation worked fine, but sadly I get some trouble with the 2.6.18
kernel included into Etch.


To begin, I have tried the linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 but at the first boot
the kernel freeze completely (the MagicSysReq keys doesn't work). So I
build my own image from the current linux-source-2.6.18 to test if the
problem could be eventualy solved with more specific options related to
my hardware configuration.

After rebooting without problem on my own linux-image kernel, for a moment
all seemed to work fine... until the whole system freeze again during the
configuration process of some new packages I have planned to install.

Despite the log files contains nothing useful, investigating a bit (eg.
more reboots and freezes later :-D show that the problem always occurs
during disk i/o operations, specially when loading the system at boot or
installing/deinstalling packages (heavy disk usage = faster freeze).


Of course, I did not have any problem when I use my previous kernel as
fallback (an old 2.6.8 version build with the Debian Sarge sources).

Perhaps a disk driver (I use the AIC7XXX kernel module) bug ?


my lspci :
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P]
System Controller (rev 11)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P]
AGP Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus] ISA
(rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus]
IDE (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus] ACPI
(rev 01)
00:07.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus]
USB (rev 07)
00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-3960D / AIC-7899A U160/m
(rev 01)
00:0a.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-3960D / AIC-7899A U160/m
(rev 01)
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
(rev 78)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti
4400] (rev a2)


Thanx for your help,
THR4K



-- 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 2.6.8-16.6-tigermp
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.18 depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.17-3     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  bzip2                         1.0.3-6    high-quality block-sorting file co

Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.18 recommends:
ii  gcc                         4:4.1.1-15   The GNU C compiler
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]        2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii  make                        3.81-2       The GNU version of the "make" util

-- no debconf information

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Version: 2.6.24-1

> his is due to the clocsourse set up.  (Bug#412194: 
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7: total system freeze after max. 10 minutes uptime).
> Add boot option: clocksource=tsc

fixed in newer upstream

-- 
maks

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