Bug#690814: [3.1->3.2.y regression] disk activity provokes lockups on VIA EPIA CL-6000

[Frank Lenaerts <frank.lenaerts@yahoo.com>]

--- On Tue, 10/30/12, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks!  To recap:

3.1.8-2 works fine
3.2.1-1 hung at "Loading, please wait..." once, worked fine twice
3.2.23-1 reliably hangs (though not always right away)

Could you try 3.2~rc4-1~experimental.1, to narrow down the range a
little?  (If it doesn't hang, that would be great, but I suspect it
will hang, too.)

3.2~rc4-1~experimental.1 seems to work fine i.e. I booted it several times and didn't encounter a problem. Also booted 3.2.1-1 again and it also booted fine (it has been running fine for a week or so). Also tried 3.2.23-1 again but it got stuck at "Activating swap...", thus I think that "reliably hangs" states it correctly.

I also tried linux-image-3.2.0-2-486_3.2.19-1_i386.deb. It seems to boot fine (3 tests) and I left it running for now to see if it locks up while it is in use.