Re: Hard freezes with Sid/Experimental
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:47:07 -0700
"Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Over about two days, I have had three hard freezes with Sid/Experimental.
> A few minutes ago, I saw one happen (the others where while I was away).
> The computer instantly went from fully functional, no problems to frozen
> solid. Nothing moving on screen, no response to ctrl-alt-backspace or
> ctrl-alt-del. No response to ping or power button "soft off". The music
> was replace by a fast cycling jittering/buzzing noise. After a hard reset,
> everything is fine.
>
> The most recent obvious candidate change is the most recent kernel update,
> which I did shortly before the first freeze. This was the upgrade to
> linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-9.
>
> I see nothing in syslog - everything is normal and then BAM! - restart.
>
> If anyone has any ideas or advice, that would be great.
> Otherwise, I guess this a warning to be alert for problems.
I once had something quite similar; in my case, it was some sort of
regression in the RTC code:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10729
It has been corrected, so I don't know if this information will be
useful to you.
Celejar
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