Re: [Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-11-21 Thread zeddock
It may have appeared to have been fixed in Intrepid... but it is not. Thanx, zeddock On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Leann Ogasawara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @IanG and @zeddock, care to open new bug reports? It's likely this > issue is hardware specific. Janne, the original bug reporter

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-11-20 Thread Leann Ogasawara
@IanG and @zeddock, care to open new bug reports? It's likely this issue is hardware specific. Janne, the original bug reporter has commented this appears to be resolved for Intrepid. Thanks. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- Hardy kernel causes overhea

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-11-17 Thread zeddock
My problem still exists on Dell Inspiron 8500 on 8.10, kernel 2.6.27 zeddock -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-11-07 Thread IanG
I've not been so lucky. At least three times since upgrading to Intrepid I've had automatic shutdowns due to kernel overheating problems, although it has settled down of late. The jury's still out for me -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this b

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-11-06 Thread Janne Moren
I've upgraded to Intrepid and the issue seems largely resolved. The machine still tends to run hot, but not excessively so. More important, the power regulation now works properly so that the system slows down in an orderly manner whenever the temperature rises too high. I've tried to stress it qui

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-10-23 Thread Janne Moren
I will install 8.10 once it's been released and out for a while. I don't want another six months like this so I'll be monitoring user reports on machines similar to mine for a while before changing anything. Especially so since there was a bad-looking bug on Wifi hardware that might affect me, and

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-10-23 Thread Leann Ogasawara
Hi Janne, Would you be able to confirm this is resolved for you as well? Thanks. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-09-21 Thread Elod VALKAI
I simply upgraded to Intrepid last week, since I've got some time, and bandwidth to spare. 2.6.27 is stable on my laptop, that was crashing constantly with 2.6.24. Intrepid is a release I'm looking forward to. -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-09-01 Thread Leann Ogasawara
Hi Janne, You'll need to enable the Intrepid repository to get the 2.6.27 kernel. If you are not familiar with how to do this I'd suggest waiting for Alpha5 to test which is set to be released this Thursday (Sept 4). Implications of using the 2.6.27 kernel with Hardy are not completely known nor s

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-08-28 Thread Janne Moren
"If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux- image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test." Where do I get them? Should I grab it from the Intrepid tree? Will those packages work without a lot of installation breakage on Hardy? -- Hardy kernel

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-08-28 Thread Leann Ogasawara
The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test: 1) If you are comfortable

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-08-04 Thread IanG
Well said Janne. This has been a terrible kernel for overheating issues which left me simply giving up and waiting for another dist-upgrade. The most disappointing thing has been the general lack of mediation. -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-08-03 Thread Nick Ellery
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-08-02 Thread Janne Moren
Final post: booting up, leaving machine idle, and only opening a terminal to check the temperature: With 2.6.24-19-generic SMP, the temperature is 64 degrees. With 2.6.24-20-generic SMP, the temperature is 85 degrees. The temp at which the CPU shuts down is 89 or so. -- Hardy kernel causes ove

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-08-02 Thread Janne Moren
The -19 kernel was decent; it will lock up userland whenever the machine gets too hot as above but it didn't run very hot. With a desk fan pointed at the machine I can at least get some work done. With the latest kernel update (2.6.24-20-generic) I'm back to the issue described at the beginning, w

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-07-01 Thread Janne Moren
On a whim I tried updating the CPU firmware from Intel. Didn't really help completely as such (though it did perhaps stabilize it some; I'll do some comparisons with and without). This time I was running "watch acpi -V" in a shell, and deliberately hitting the machine with some heavy processing (r

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-30 Thread Janne Moren
I am once again open to the possibility that this may be temperature related. Mea Culpa. It's getting hot at work so I got a really small desk fan, and it is pointing on to the machine and myself. While it is running, the machine runs cool and I have had no lockups at all. A bit of experimentation

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-22 Thread Janne Moren
IanG: The problem I've reported is not temperature related. It's connected to the level of activity on the machine (the more activity the more likely to freeze); I can make it happen while the temperature is still well below any danger level. Also, this is not a kernel crash. What I think I'm seei

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-19 Thread IanG
This s getting silly: Jun 19 09:30:22 ubuntu kernel: [ 5074.970741] ACPI: Critical trip point Jun 19 09:30:22 ubuntu kernel: [ 5074.974575] ACPI: Unable to turn cooling device [f7c4d420] 'on' Jun 19 09:30:29 ubuntu kernel: [ 5082.114430] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team Jun 19 09:3

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-17 Thread beefcurry
Going back to the oldest Gutsy Kernel did not help much, still suffered from the strange freezes. Janne might be making a slight point about how temperature is not the only issue here. -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification bec

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-17 Thread IanG
The problem has got worse since updating this morning to the above. Now with just a few sites open, Kaffeine running and Thunderbird open but with the system generally idling I get the following prior to a forced automatic system shut down: Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-19-386 #1 Wed Jun 4 15:54:02 UTC 2008

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-17 Thread IanG
Re my last comment - Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-19-386 #1 Wed Jun 4 15:54:02 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux I have to agree with Janne, this is the worst upgrade yet and I somehow wished I'd stayed with Gutsy for the time being. However, I am glad this is LTS so am hoping for a Dapper typre robustness eventuall

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-17 Thread IanG
I'm unable to do a recent kernel update without the system shutting down because "critical temp" has been reached. Had an automatic shutdown, lost screen resolution and had to run dpkg --configure -a to correct errors. Jun 17 10:31:03 ubuntu kernel: [ 4342.918510] ACPI: Critical trip point Jun 17

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-16 Thread beefcurry
I have this from the recent kernel updates in 8.04. I can only ration time spent using anything that might bump my cpu cycles up. I have turned off my Wlan, seems to contribute to around 4C in heat, Xorg itself running can contribute a fair 5-6C in heat. I can't isolate where its heating up since

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-08 Thread Janne Moren
2.6.26-19, same result. I dug up my four-year old notebook in the same series as the one I have. Much the same, with Intel graphics, Pentium M and so on. One major difference is that it is single-core, unlike this dual-core machine. I did a fresh install of Hardy on it. And no matter how much I pu

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-07 Thread Janne Moren
Tried 2.6.26-18. It is the worst kernel so far. With -16 I can usually work for most of a day if I'm a bit careful about what I run (nothing that will peg the CPU for an extended period). With -18 I have not yet managed to stay up for more than two hours, and usually much less. I have by the way a

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-02 Thread Janne Moren
Disabling wireless as above made no difference at all. As before, all I need to do is load the system and soon this thing hits. Would it be feasible to take the 2.6.24 kernel, say, and build it with a different scheduler? -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-01 Thread Janne Moren
As I wrote earlier, that message I _only_ get when I test the 2.6.25 kernels, no doubt because that's an experimental kernel intended for 8.10 and so the microcode isn't included there yet. When running 2.6.24 I do not get that error message and wireless works fine. I have also run with the killsw

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-06-01 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
Hi Janne, >From your kern.log, you've got an issue with the wifi driver iwl3945. This is at least one difference between Gutsy and Hardy. Gutsy was using the driver ipw3945 and Hardy has moved to iwl3945. This may cause IRQ or ACPI problems. I've had similar problems with an Intel 4965 which were

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-31 Thread Janne Moren
Another data point: It crashed with a YouTube clip running and the last audio sample kept repeating over and over, indicating again that the system isn't completely dead as much as userland processes are blocked. Once again, is there anything I can do to to help find this? It happens on every sing

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-24 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
Setting to confirmed, because required information is provided and the bug is reproducible with 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 and doesn't occurs with 2.6.22. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team) Status: New => Confirmed -- Hardy kernel c

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-24 Thread Janne Moren
It looks rather like some deadlock or starvation issue. The UI and all userland applications freeze, but events like screen dimming still happen on schedule as I mentioned above. While the screen (jerkily, slowly) dims, I can actually move the mouse and do stuff; once the screen is dimmed it all fr

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-22 Thread Janne Moren
Time to eat a bit of crow. I was running with the 2.6.24-17 kernel and the machine froze again. For various reasons I delayed in rebooting it, and got really surprised when, after a few minutes, the screen sloowly, jerkily dimmed. That made me keep on waiting, and after about five minutes the mach

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-21 Thread Janne Moren
I just tried with the 2.6.24-17 from Hardy-proposed. Still freezes. Is there a way to see if the kernel actually crashes? Or if the kernel is running but something else is happening? -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-19 Thread Janne Moren
Here's my kern.log, from boot to freeze. It's the 2.6.25 kernel so my wifi hardware doesn't actually work; those messages are unrelated to this issue. I was thinking, are we sure this is a kernel krash? There is no core dump, and nothing in the logs. Could it possibly be the scheduler messing up s

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
Thanks for the update. Can you attach the file /var/log/kern.log just after a freeze occurs. Evidences may be caught in it. -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-11 Thread Janne Moren
It seems the heating problem is a red herring, a false lead, an unrelated distraction. It seems that the 2.6.22 and 2.6.24 kernels running the machine hot is not connected to this issue. I ran the 2.6.25-1 kernel during today, just doing normal office work, and constantly logging my CPU core tempe

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-11 Thread Elod VALKAI
I can confirm the drop in wakeups/sec (from 100 to about 50). The i915 driver disappeared completely from powertop. C3 states also work now, with 2.6.24 the cpu did not enter this state. Thanks for the game-tip :D. It's cute, i've had about an hours fun with it, and a high score of 646 (epiphany c

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-11 Thread Janne Moren
A bad news/good news kind of result. The bad news: the 2.4.25-1 kernel also freezes like the 2.4.24 one, in my case still when the machine gets too hot, it seems. The good news: the machine seems to run a bit cooler with this kernel, and I can't make the wakeups-per-second peak the way it so easi

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-11 Thread Janne Moren
I'll take a look - thanks. As I've described above, the kernel itself is not the cause of the overheating (it's the uhci driver and/or the i915 driver from what it seems now), but the kernels differ in how they are able to handle it. For me it's not a fan issue as this computer is fanless. Previo

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-11 Thread Elod VALKAI
Kernels are 2.6.24-17-generic & 2.6.25-1-generic. It's 10 in the morning and I'm still asleep ;). -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-11 Thread Elod VALKAI
Janne, I've been having the same problem with closed lid & overheating, but it did not start with hardy. The laptop simply accumulates too much heat, but it does not crash. I think it's not starting the fan at all after closing the lid. I've also updated my topic. 2.4.24-17-generic seems to freeze

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-08 Thread Janne Moren
Here it is. What are you looking for? ** Attachment added: "syslog" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14363311/syslog -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-08 Thread petebass4life
would you be able to attatch your syslog it would be interesting to look at comparing to a bug of mine -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-b

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-08 Thread Janne Moren
A few more notes: * The enormous number of wakeups from the USB subsystem can still be triggered without unplugging a mouse; it is a lot less frequent though. * The kernel still locks up. * This kernel bug seems to be the same as #204996 (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-06 Thread Janne Moren
I rebooted with power plug, wired network cable and USB mouse plugged in. Screen blanking and so on disabled. No applications running except for a gnome-terminal and a bash one-line loop to record temperature every ten secondd, and occasionally powertop. Temperature stays normal, at about 50 degree

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-06 Thread Janne Moren
More testing. Just booting the machine (into the Feisty kernel) and running stuff works just fine; the machine stays at around 40 degrees. Even when playing a movie full screen it does never go over 60 degrees or so. This is the normal behaviour from Feisty. If I run "powertop" I get decent values

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-05-05 Thread Janne Moren
A small addendum: The machine is running too hot with both the Hardy kernel (2.6.24) and the Gutsy one (2.6.22). The difference between the 2.6.24 kernel and the 2.6.22 kernel for me seems simply to be that the 2.6.22 kernel is able to reduce performance sufficiently to avoid the machine overheat,

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-04-27 Thread Janne Moren
** Attachment added: "version.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13975162/version.log -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing l

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-04-27 Thread Janne Moren
** Attachment added: "uname-a.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13975156/uname-a.log -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing l

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-04-27 Thread Janne Moren
** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13975166/dmesg.log -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-04-27 Thread Janne Moren
** Attachment added: "lspci-vvnn.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13975170/lspci-vvnn.log -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 223081] Re: Hardy kernel causes overheating

2008-04-27 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please include the following additional information, if you have not already done so (pay attention to lspci's additional options), as required by the Ubuntu Kernel Team: 1. Please include the output of the comma