today for some reason I've started getting lockups with 2.6 kernel + gentoo 1.4. Symptoms are kde desktop frozen, virtual terminals not working and caps lock not working. All I can find to do in such a case is to power off and on again.
I'm not sure how to debug this. After the reboot I see in the logs :-
Jan 5 15:06:44 plord Badness in pci_find_subsys at drivers/pci/search.c:132 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord Call Trace: Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c026cc19>] pci_find_subsys+0x114/0x11c Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c026cc50>] pci_find_device+0x2f/0x33 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c026cae3>] pci_find_slot+0x27/0x49 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1c972ee>] os_pci_init_handle+0x35/0x62 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1ca9c0f>] __nvsym00057+0x1f/0x24 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1dba168>] __nvsym04875+0xf8/0x170 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1db9f3a>] __nvsym00780+0x21a/0x224 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1d51b34>] __nvsym03928+0x70/0x98 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1d517f4>] __nvsym00610+0x7ac/0x954 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c031cace>] sock_aio_read+0xb8/0xd0 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1d80b1a>] __nvsym00688+0x16a/0x338 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c011eeae>] recalc_task_prio+0x90/0x1aa Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1cac319>] __nvsym00827+0xd/0x1c [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1cad9b4>] rm_isr_bh+0xc/0x10 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c01292c3>] tasklet_action+0x65/0xae Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c0129048>] do_softirq+0xc0/0xc2 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c010da01>] do_IRQ+0x13e/0x192 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c010bd60>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord Jan 5 15:06:44 plord Badness in pci_find_subsys at drivers/pci/search.c:132 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord Call Trace: Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c026cc19>] pci_find_subsys+0x114/0x11c Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c026cc50>] pci_find_device+0x2f/0x33 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c026cae3>] pci_find_slot+0x27/0x49 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1c972ee>] os_pci_init_handle+0x35/0x62 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1ca9c0f>] __nvsym00057+0x1f/0x24 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1d3e242>] __nvsym03763+0x72/0xe0 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1d82d51>] __nvsym04466+0x15/0x78 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1dba197>] __nvsym04875+0x127/0x170 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1db9f3a>] __nvsym00780+0x21a/0x224 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1d51b34>] __nvsym03928+0x70/0x98 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1d517f4>] __nvsym00610+0x7ac/0x954 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c031cace>] sock_aio_read+0xb8/0xd0 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1d80b1a>] __nvsym00688+0x16a/0x338 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c011eeae>] recalc_task_prio+0x90/0x1aa Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1cac319>] __nvsym00827+0xd/0x1c [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<e1cad9b4>] rm_isr_bh+0xc/0x10 [nvidia] Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c01292c3>] tasklet_action+0x65/0xae Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c0129048>] do_softirq+0xc0/0xc2 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c010da01>] do_IRQ+0x13e/0x192 Jan 5 15:06:44 plord [<c010bd60>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
So suspicion is with nvidia. As it happens, today I've started using an external monitor for the first time (I'm running on a Dell Inspiron 5150 notebook).
I've tried using the latest nvidia kernel drivers (1.0.5328) but I just get a white screen, so I've gone back to the most recent stable version (1.0.4496-r3).
Anything I can do to fix and/or debug further ? Problem is I can't even see any console messages since I'm still in X.
Cheers,
Pete
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