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Bug#403606: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: Seemingly random system freezes)

Your message dated Wed, 28 May 2008 12:12:05 +0200
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--- Begin Message --- 
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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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 2.6.24-1

> It to me is very clear now the issue is related to SATA i/o.
> Both my harddrive and dvd drive are on a ICH8 southbridge. 

for 2.6.24 in etch, sata saw quite some more improvements since.
-> http://wiki.debian.org/EtchAndAHalf

-- 
maks

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