On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue,21.Oct.08, 18:47:07, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> The most recent obvious candidate change is the most recent kernel update, >> which I did shortly before the first freeze. This was the upgrade to >> linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-9. >> >> I see nothing in syslog - everything is normal and then BAM! - restart. >> >> If anyone has any ideas or advice, that would be great. >> Otherwise, I guess this a warning to be alert for problems. > > Try an earlier kernel, like 2.6.25 or so (I always keep at least on > older version arround).
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:44 AM, thveillon.debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > There have been several similar threads on the French and English lists > recently, many more on forums, and although it looks too generic to put all > this problems together the symptoms are always the same : complete freeze > with display staying on, ssh or sysrq not working, logs still running for a > few minutes (if you run a tail -f in console mode) then dyes, sound keeps > going in a loop... > Nothing to be found in any log. > > It happened to me with all 2.6.25, and some 2.6.26 starting with revision 2 > (or 3, can't remember now), on both 32bit "bigmem" and amd64 on only one > machine (tried an image of the same system on three others). > It doesn't seem to be X-related, since running in text mode without Xorg > running leads to the same freezes. I could only get it to stop by compiling > the kernel without /proc support, so maybe acpi and/or cpufreq related, but > despite several tests together with Debian kernel people I couldn't isolate > a specific problem ( opened a bug when it first started on 2.6.25 #482100 ). > It's happening to people with various hardware, ati or amd graphic boards, > intel or amd cpu. Impossible to find a common denominator so far. > > It has now stopped with kernel 2.6.27, even running cpufreq and full acpi > with /proc compiled in doesn't trigger any problem. Tried with both > kernel.org vanilla kernel and Debian experimental one (currently running the > later). > > If it can be of any help. > > Tom I hope you don't mind me pushing this to the list (I think it was meant for the list anyway, I do the same thing sometimes with the gmail interface) Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I think I may try 2.6.27 first (I don't see it in exp., though) then .25 if that doesn't work, and I will try alt-sysrq, although I have doubts that it will work. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
