Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sun, 06 Nov 2016 13:53:10 +0100 Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.2.81-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > Ten days ago I upgraded one of my older PCs (Intel Celeron 400 MHz) running > wheezy from kernel 3.2.81-2 to 3.2.82-1 and soon after I realized that the > system started to "freeze" a couple of minutes after booting. That was > happening in various situations (E.g. after booting when it came to the login > GUI, or later after the login while it was idle, and even later while I was > using the system). It changed from time to time, but in average the system was > usable no longer than 0.5-1 hour or so. > > In fact nothing else could be done but pressing the reset button. Trying to go > into text mode was ineffective. After hard rebooting the same problem repeated > after a while, regardless the system was iddle or some activities were there. > No escape to Ctrl-Alt-F1 or so was possible. And by the way the keyboard LEDs > for Caps Lock and Scroll Lock started flashing, so neither keyboard nor the > mouse were usable. > > After downgrading the kernel back to 3.2.81-2 the problem dissapeared. It works > good for a week now. I didn't see any clues in the kernel log, and none of the drivers specific to this system seem to have changed between 3.2.81 and 3.2.82. Does this system have auditing enabled and does turning that off avoid the problem? Can you try using netconsole to capture kernel log messages leading up to the freeze? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part