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SubjectRe: Hang in 2.6.23-rc5


On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>
> On 9/2/07, charles gagalac <charles.gagalac@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/2/07, daryll q wrote:
> > > Upgraded my kernel from 2.6.23-rc2 to 2.6.23-rc5.
> > >
> > > System hangs (caps lock and scroll lock leds are both flashing).
> > >
> > > It *randomly* happens but most of the time during after login to KDE.
> > >
> > > I have not investigated it yet because I have not tried doing it before.
> > >
> > > Also the system is really not responding so I can't do much.. Just
> > > hope it blue screen so I can send the error code easily :)
> >
> > i experienced hangs, with the flashing caps and scroll locks as you've
> > described, in a few of my later pulls prior to rc5. i couldn't
> > reproduce the hangs and my logs didn't show evidence of a problem. my
> > system under rc5, so far, hasn't hung on me.
>
> Oh, I thought I was the only one. I also had a single hang+flashing
> Caps & Scroll Lock with -rc5, but haven't had one since.

Looks like a full-blown panic to me. Didn't any of you guys manage to
catch anything in /var/log/messages? Else, please try reproducing this
with a serial console or netconsole at least. netconsole should be easy
to setup, instructions on how to use that here:

(very long URL)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.24.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt;hb=HEAD
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