Re: Hang in 2.6.23-rc5

["Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On 9/2/07, charles gagalac <charles.gagalac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/07, daryll q wrote:
> > Upgraded my kernel from 2.6.23-rc2 to 2.6.23-rc5.
> >
> >  System hangs (caps lock and scroll lock leds are both flashing).
> >
> >  It *randomly* happens but most of the time during after login to KDE.
> >
> >  I have not investigated it yet because I have not tried doing it  before.
> >
> >  Also the system is really not responding so I can't do much.. Just
> >  hope it blue screen so I can send the error code easily :)
>
> i experienced hangs, with the flashing caps and scroll locks as you've
> described, in a few of my later pulls prior to rc5.  i couldn't
> reproduce the hangs and my logs didn't show evidence of a problem.  my
> system under rc5, so far, hasn't hung on me.
>
> charles

Oh, I thought I was the only one. I also had a single hang+flashing
 Caps & Scroll Lock with -rc5, but haven't had one since.

I had VMWare Player modules loaded at the time though, and I
 recently rebuilt them with the any-any-patch-113 (earlier versions
 would not build with very recent kernels).

-rc4-git2 and -git3 never hung even with VMWare modules loaded.

So I disabled the autoload of VMWare stuff. The problem has not
 reproduced so far. My system is a Dell D610, running updated
 Fedora 7, with Intel 915GM video chipset.

--alessandro

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