Bug#526339: [linux-image-2.6.29-1-686] System freezes
Hello,
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 19:19:56 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:46:11PM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> > Package: linux-image-2.6.29-1-686
> > Version: 2.6.29-3
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> >
> > I've been using the curent version (2.6.28) for weeks, on my Dell
> > Latitude D530, suspending every night and getting uptimes of 45 days
> > (until I rebooted voluntarily) using it as a regular desktop machine,
> > with very few glitches (maybe some applications leaking a bit, no
> > showstoppers).
> >
> > With 2.6.29 however, the system only stays up for a few hours, then kind
> > of hangs for no apparent reason, IIRC all times involving watching
> > videos, e.g. with Xine. At some point the mouse can be moved but clicks
> > don't work, the keyboard is unresponsive (except for [some?] Alt-SysRq
> > combinations), and when playing music, the music continues for a few
> > seconds and then the sound stops too.
> >
> > Closing the lid doesn't help, the system won't go to sleep and the screen
> > contiues switched on while the lid is closed.
> >
> > My guess is that something related with video drivers is causing this (or
> > video memory management, or something introduced in .29). I switched
> > back to .28, maintaining all the versions of X.org and the rest of the
> > system, only disabled screen effects in KDE4 as a cautionary measure, and
> > I've been working without any problem since yesterday.
> >
> > I haven't tested thoroughly with OpenGL applications and the like, and I
> > can't make many tests to try to isolate the problem because this is my
> > only workstation/desktop machine at the moment, so I need it to work and
> > communicate.
>
> Does this still occur with 2.6.30 from unstable?
Not that I'm aware of. Sometimes I have to restart the computer but I tend to
have long uptimes (for a laptop), up to a month or two, typically suspending to
RAM every night or several times a day.
I don't use KDE4 effects though, they make the UI feel sluggish, but I fire up
OpenGL apps, videos with xine or mplayer without noticing lock-ups.
$ uname -a
Linux belenos 2.6.30-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 19:11:58 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
$ uptime
19:50:44 up 8 days, 1:30, 2 users, load average: 0.31, 0.16, 0.09
> Cheers,
> Moritz
Regards.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo@gmail.com>
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