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Bug#509441: computer locks up during down-load



 Hi

Thank you very much for your e-mail.

It is reproducible on this computer, but only when dialled into that 
particular dial-up line.
I guess that that dial-up line is faster than the others.

I have tried it again to see whether <CTRL><ALT><F1> does anything.
If I press <Ctrl><Alt><F1> during download before the computer hangs, and do 
not the press <Ctrl><Alt>F7> till the download is complete, then the computer 
does not hang, even after I press <Ctrl><Alt>F7>, (unless I do another 
download).
However, if the computer hangs first, then <Ctrl><Alt><F1> does nothing.
If I do not press <Ctrl><Alt><F1> then the delay between start of download and 
computer hang varied, it is not reproducible.

I was using it as user jwl whose groups are:
   jwl cdrom floppy dip users jwl_desk.
This list does not include audio ,
this might be relevant.

In order to get reproducible results I have configured Iceweasel to not use 
(squid) proxy.
(I also tried using squid, the computer does not hang when retrieving a 
previously cached copy of a webpage.)


Today, after the computer hung, I switched it off, then switched it on again.
Then I looked at the syslog, it seemed to suggest that there was something 
wrong in the mtrr part of the kernel.
I attach a copy of the tail of /var/log/syslog as it was just after switch on.

I hope that this is usefull.

Best regards
Richard Betham


On Friday 15 May 2009 17:40, dann frazier wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 04:18:33PM +0100, R. Betham wrote:
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Version: 2.6.18-6-k7
> >
> > I have difficulty in making an Oops trace.
> >
> > I have upgraded the kernel to linux-image2.6.18-6-k7 ,
> > along with the other upgrades from security.debian.org for Etch.
> > I told the computer to switch itself off, it did so.
> > I switched it on,
> > dialled into 0845 6040104.
> > I used Iceweasel to contact http://www.companies-house.gov.uk/ ,
> > the computer hung.
> > Even <Ctrl><Alt><Del> did not unhang it.
>
> Is this reproducible? Does CTRL+ALT+F1 get you to a text console?

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May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:         0 With invalid flags. 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:        68 Objects loaded. 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:         0 Objects expired. 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:         0 Objects cancelled. 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:         0 Duplicate URLs purged. 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:         0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:   Took 0.6 seconds ( 115.4 objects/sec). 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]: Beginning Validation Procedure 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:   Completed Validation Procedure 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:   Validated 68 Entries 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]:   store_swap_size = 892k 
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb /usr/sbin/cron[2673]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs)
May 29 15:26:01 desk-deb squid[2646]: storeLateRelease: released 0 objects 
May 29 15:26:04 desk-deb kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
May 29 15:26:04 desk-deb kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
May 29 15:26:04 desk-deb kernel: [drm] Initialized savage 2.4.1 20050313 on minor 0
May 29 15:26:04 desk-deb kernel: mtrr: base(0xd2000000) is not aligned on a size(0x5000000) boundary
May 29 15:26:04 desk-deb kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
May 29 15:26:04 desk-deb kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
May 29 15:26:04 desk-deb kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode

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