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Bug#680514: Debian Wheezy freezing



Hi, guys, how are you?

On February, 2 I sent the e-mail below, about a problem I'm having with Debian on my Lenovo laptop.

As suggested, I upgraded my kernel to 3.7 (the current trunk kernel at that moment), but it didn't solve the problem.

So I returned to kernel 3.2 (my wifi didn't work on 3.7), and continued living with the problem. Once a week, sometimes once a day, and sometimes twice a day, the system freeze and I need to restart manually. The issue is more critical because I use the laptop at the job.

But yesterday the system froze again, and I spent 3 hours scanning the entire /var/log directory, hoping to find any message that could help me understand the problem.

So I finally found it! My problem is related to this bug[1], though I found the message "EQ overflowing" in file /var/log/gdm3/:0.log, not in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

I'm so glad I found this bug report, which is exactly the problem I'm facing, and other people are facing this problem too. It means that it may take time, but a solution will be found someday.

So I'm here to tell you guys that, though my experience with Linux is not that much, I'm a developer (currently working with C# since 2008, but spent three years with C before that) and I would be happy to help you solve this bug :)

Regards,

Will

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680514

On 02-02-2013 09:36, William Ivanski wrote:
Hi  everybody,

I have a Lenovo laptop, with CPU Intel Core i5, which I use to work.
I installed Debian Wheezy and the system freezes randomly. No response to keyboard or mouse clicks, just mouse moves. Needed to restart all the times.

I searched a lot about this problem, and many people suggest the installation of a newer kernel (current is 3.2).
Currently, on kernel.org, stable release is 3.7.5.

I never compiled a kernel before, so I am afraid of the problems it might create. I'm worried about virtualbox, which I installed through aptitude.
I'm also considering upgrade to Debian unstable branch. It have a kernel newer than 3.2, doesn't it?

So my questions are:

1) Which is better? Keep Debian Wheezy and compile a new kernel, or upgrade to Debian Sid?
2) Have you guys compiled a kernel before? How it was? Can you provide me a good tutorial about it?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Regards,
Will


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