Re: Kernel Oops when closing the lid on Dell XPS 14z

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 21 May 2012 20:57:58 -0400, Sylvain Archenault wrote:

> I'm running Sid on my Dell XPS 14z, everything is up to date. Suspend
> works fine when I select it from the menu. But when I close the lid, it
> crashes. If I suspend first with the menu, and then close the lid, it
> works correcty.

That's curious because closing the lid and suspending from menu should 
both trigger the same command unless.... what's the action you have 
configured when closing the lid, to suspend or hibernate?

> I tried kernel 3.3 trunk and got the same problem.
> 
> Intel X driver is 2.18.0-2+b1.
> 
> Here is the output from syslog:
> May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.787327] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc9001193396c 
> May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.787415] IP: [<ffffffff812474b8>] gen6_write_entry+0x4c/0x4f 
> May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.787493] PGD 1cf023067 PUD 1cf024067 PMD 1c89ee067 PTE 0
> May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.787570] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
> May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.787614] CPU 1 
> May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.788707] 
> May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.788732] Pid: 9739, comm: Xorg Tainted: G         C   3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 Dell Inc. XPS L412Z/008DD8 

(...)

> May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.790058] Call Trace: 
> May 21 18:20:15 TichoLaptop kernel: [ 1658.790097]  [<ffffffff81248526>] ? intel_gtt_insert_sg_entries+0x45/0x8d

(...)

Looks like the Xorg server is crashing.

> I looked online, but I couldn't find a workaround.

Yes, you did: suspend from the menu instead closing the lid ;-)
 
> Let me know if more information are needed.

I would report a kernel oops in Debian BTS, eve more if running sid.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón