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FS#23735 - [kernel 2.6.38.2 ?] unusual freeze

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 23:22 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 07 February 2012, 08:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I am quite tired and sad.
I am even considering switching to ubuntu or fedora given the hude level of brokenness I see using [testing] right now (I switched to use gnome 3). nothing to do with archlinux, it's just upstream that f*** up.

Apart from gnome-shell crashing, I have strange behavior of the kernel (or glibc ???)

It freeze X and when I switch to a console, I can't get a shell prompt. It stops at Last login line after I entered my password
It works all day, but 2 days in a row, in the evening it behave weird.

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-April/019462.html
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/370616/

I thought about a bad block on reiserfs partition but that does not seem to be the problem

I am downgrading to try to see if it makes any changes to kernel 2.6.37.6

This task depends upon

Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Tuesday, 07 February 2012, 08:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Seems solved with the latest linux-lts
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Friday, 15 April 2011, 20:50 GMT
so using kernel 2.6.37.6 for a few days and I got no problem.
It's not a fool proof that 2.6.38 is a problem but it might.
I need to switch back to 2.6.38 to try to see if it broke again
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Saturday, 16 April 2011, 11:06 GMT
please report this bug upstream, are you using nvidia btw?
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Saturday, 16 April 2011, 18:12 GMT
yes. I am using latest nvidia 270.41.03-1
after switching back to 2.6.38.2 I got another problem.
this time no dramatic freeze in X. but a simple ps aux freeze and do not complete ! while other command succeed ?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/16/116
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Monday, 18 April 2011, 10:32 GMT
As I had predicted, the bug report went unnoticed in the lkml. Why would have been otherwise given the info I had ?

Strangely, I have recompiled kernel-2.6.38.2 from abs, and hadn't any problem yet.
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Monday, 25 April 2011, 21:45 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
it happened again with 2.6.38.3
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/377811/

I see a lot of reiserfs_* in the call trace
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Friday, 17 June 2011, 14:00 GMT
status with .39?
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Monday, 20 June 2011, 07:14 GMT
  • Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)
It's ironic it's when you ask me about it and I say it's gone that I hit it again.

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/415186/

In fact, it was because I was never running more than 12 hours. It needs to stay up and runnning for more than 12 hours (rough approximation) so that the bug appears.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Monday, 20 June 2011, 09:06 GMT
you said in your original bugreport it's upstream, so report it there.....
Comment by solsTiCe (zebul666) - Monday, 20 June 2011, 11:24 GMT
another message in a bottle send to the sea of lkml
http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/20/86

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