Bug#494875: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686-bigmem: hangs after a while

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:24:14PM +0300, VALKAI Elod wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686-bigmem
> Version: 2.6.25-7
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> 
> I've upgraded recently to kernel 2.6.25, used it for a while (couple of hourse,
> it's not on my primary machine). 
> 
> Today I noticed that it produces random hangs. First it crashed while doing a 
> partimage from sda to sda. 
> 
> After that (and after doing an upgrade to 2.6.25-7 - it was 6 before, so it 
> affects both packages) it hung while copying from sda to sdb (a USB hdd).
> 
> The hang is the same in both cases: console is still active (receives keystrokes)
> but no command gets through. I can switch consoles, though (Alt-F1, Alt-F2) but
> obviously none of them work.
> 
> I can press SysReq, and reboot from there. 2.6.24-7 is stable so far.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz