Re: kernel freezes with 2.6.12.5 and 2.6.13

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* Peter Münster (pmlists@free.fr) wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Chris Wright wrote:
> 
> > * Peter Münster (pmlists@free.fr) wrote:
> > > with 2.6.12.4 no problem. But with a newer version, I get a black screen
> > > and no more network access, when trying to print (lpr some-file.ps).
> > > Everything else seems to work ok.
> > > Printer is a network-printer managed by cups.
> > > I suppose, it's a smp-problem, so here is my /proc/cpuinfo:
> > 
> > Is this 100% reproducible?  Do you get any kernel oops messages on
> > the console?  There are very few patches between 2.6.12.4 and 2.6.12.5,
> > so if the problem is reproducible can you narrow to the specific patch?
> 
> Yes, it's 100% reproducible. But I do not get any message. Display is
> shutting down, and no more access with ssh. Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work
> neither. Nothing in /var/log/messages.

Are you running X?  Can you reproduce running lpr from console command line?

> Of course, I can try to narrow down to the specific patch, if you send me
> the different patches. I only have the diff between 2.6.12.4 and 2.6.12.5
> and I don't know how to extract the patches.

They're here in git:

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/chrisw/stable-queue.git;a=tree;h=5c84e7f0112b3961f7a346b4d0161048482b2b6b;hb=717a323d8a8523fc5972158c5cef8ba914f36671;f=2.6.12.5