Bug#647770: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Random system freeze after "ohci_hcd 0000:00:12.0: HC died; cleaning up"

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Yevgen Sarychev wrote:

> Version: 2.6.32-38
[...]
> Completely random, my system freezes. After that even magic alt+print can't
> help

Does the screen go blank, or is there still text/images on the screen
at that point?

Has this always been this way, or did it start after an upgrade (i.e.,
is it a regression)?  If it is a regression, what were the last
working and first broken versions?

Results from testing with v3.x from sid or experimental would also be
very useful, so we can get help from upstream if it is still broken
there or find a fix to backport if it is fixed.  (The only packages
from outside squeeze aside from linux-image itself that should be
needed to test are initramfs-tools and linux-base, both available from
squeeze-backports.)

> As I think, the bug could be somewhere at drivers/usb/host/ohci-
> hcd.c.

It would be possible to test for that by blacklisting the driver and
seeing if it still happens.  (Likewise for other drivers if you have
suspicions.)

Thanks for reporting, and good luck.

Regards,
Jonathan