Bug#545125: Bug#545517: linux-image-2.6.31-rc6-amd64: freeze and on-disk corruption with KMS and suspend-to-disk

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 06:34:48PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> On 02/02/2010 17:54, maximilian attems wrote:
> >can you still reproduce that with latest  2.6.32 ??
> 
> As said in others bugs, until the next upload, I need to boot 2.6.32 with
> mem=3500M so that X can run (bugs in the kernel intel driver)

it is in sid, please use it.
 
> That said, I did not observe on-disk corruption anymore. However I
> experiment some hard-freeze sometimes when I come back from suspend-to-disk 
> :
> the screen is restored (ie I see my Gnome desktop), the mouse is moving
> but I cannot do anything (and applets showing the system state does not
> move anymore). C-A-F[1-6] does not work. I reboot with Alt-Sys-b.
>   I'm waiting for the new upload to see if this behavior is fixed (perhaps
> linked to the kernel bugs that require the mem=3500 option)
> 
> So, in summary, the current 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 is a lot more usable than
> the one I report my bug against. It seems that on-disk corruption has
> disappeared but some kernel freeze are still present. I do not know if
> this is the same bug or not.

please verify with 2.6.32-6 it has lots of fixes and see if you
can reproduce, if you can please sent report upstream on
bugzilla.kernel.org and let us know the bug nr so we can track it.
 
thanks.