I have been having so many crashes in my debian/unstable box (CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ -- 2.6.16-1-486 #2 Tue Apr 25 20:33:31 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux) lately. The majority of the crashes are happening when I am running some sort of video processing. For example, when I dump my digital video (DV) from my camcorder using the kino and then choose export to DVD, it crashes as soon as the *.mp2 and *.mpv files creations are complete. The process that combines this two files into mpeg crushing immediately. I have the strace output file for this and will enclose some portion of it at the end of this post. The others that crashes are when I use "dr_exec transcode ..." to convert to xvid and/or dvix. When using mencoder to the convert to xvid, it crashes too. Couple of times when mplayer was running (dvd watching), it crashed when I was trying to fast-forward. One thing I notice when the crash happens is that the CPU is 99% utilized. Since the crashes are freezing the system, I can not do anything but push on the power button. Once I was also running the "convert" command in a script to resize about 100+ pictures, it crushed somewhere in the middle as well.
I have been running debian/unstable in this machine from the day one (never contaminated with windoze) and I used to use kino, transcode, mplayer and others without any issues at all. I used to run kino to create my home videos and then use use transcode/dvdrip to convert some of them to divx / xvid and resize many many pictures with convert with a script. They all used to be perfect. I don't know what changed now. I reinstalled the system more than 5-6 times in the past 3 weeks (testing and/or ubstable) and each time, the system still crashes. Thank you in advance. The tail of kino export to dvd with strace right before it crashes: =================================================================== ............ write(62, "}}}}~~\177\177~~~~\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200"..., 86016) = 86016 gettimeofday({1146611656, 494129}, NULL) = 0 write(3, "F\30\5\0Z\34 \1\17\0 \1\0\0\0\0\310\0\25\0B\'\7\0Z\34 "..., 76) = 76 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 write(3, "5\30\4\0\373\' \1}\0 \1\310\0\25\0\233\4\5\0\374\' \1\373"..., 212) = 212 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 gettimeofday({1146611656, 495447}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1146611656, 495742}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 write(3, "5\30\4\0\375\' \1\3\0 \1\346\1\21\0\233\4\5\0\376\' \1"..., 1764) = 1764 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=495720000, ...}) = 0 _llseek(6, 66600000, [66600000], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(6, "\37\7\0?xxxx\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377"..., 120000) = 120000 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=495720000, ...}) = 0 _llseek(6, 66720000, [66720000], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(6, "\37\7\0?hxxx\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377"..., 120000) = 120000 write(61, "\264\377\344\377\312\377\216\377\242\377\200\377o\377\220"..., 4096) = 4096 write(61, "\2\0`\0X\377\311\377k\376\226\377B\376\271\377\342\376"..., 2304) = 2304 mmap2(NULL, 692224, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa4aed000 munmap(0xa4aed000, 692224) = 0 write(62, "\200\200\200\200\201\201\200\200\177\177\200\200\200\200"..., 4096) = 4096 write(62, "LKJIJMKJIHKLKJKKKLNMKJLMKJLNOMMM"..., 339968) = 339968 write(62, "\227\231\231\234\237\237\236\237\236\232\227\215\215\216"..., 4096) = 4096 write(62, "\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200"..., 81920) = 81920 write(62, "\202\202\202\202\202\202\202\202\202\202\202\202\202\202"..., 4096) = 4096 write(62, "\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\200\177\177"..., 81920) = 81920 gettimeofday({1146611656, 740674}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 gettimeofday({1146611656, 740850}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1146611656, 740900}, NULL) = 0 ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 2, 0) = 0 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=495720000, ...}) = 0 _llseek(6, 66720000, [66720000], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(6, "\37\7\0?hxxx\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377"..., 120000) = 120000 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=495720000, ...}) = 0 _llseek(6, 66840000, [66840000], SEEK_SET) = 0 read(6, "\37\7\0?xxxx\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377"..., 120000) = 120000 write(61, "\247\3772\377\371\377\352\377T\0\21\0\307\0\342\377\264"..., 4096) = 4096 write(61, "\347\377;\377\353\377\346\376\246\377\305\376\v\377\17"..., 2312) = 2312 mmap2(NULL, 692224, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xa4aed000 munmap(0xa4aed000, 692224) = 0 write(62, "~~\177\177\177\177\177\177\177\177\201\201\201\201\201"..., 4096) = 4096 write(62, "HFQYSURRQQPOOOONKJKKIJLIIGIHE?DI"..., 339968 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]