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On Feb 17, 2008 11:39 AM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: > (resend a third time because previous attempts never reached the lists > due to a bug in my MUA; my apologies to David for spamming his inbox) >> Linus Torvalds wrote:> > But hey, you can try to prove me wrong. I dare you.> Me too, me too!>> Weird issue this.> About a minute after logging into KDE the system freezes, but only > partially. The keyboard is completely dead in all cases (no console > switching, no SysRq), but some tasks stay running. One time music continued > playing, other times it stopped. One time the desktop clock continued > ticking, other times it stopped. One time I could close a window using the > mouse, but other windows were frozen.> It's not just KDE that's frozen; one time I switched to VT1 before the > freeze happened, but that became unusable too.> Zilch in the logs.>> I've bisected it down to:> commit 69cc64d8d92bf852f933e90c888dfff083bd4fc9> Author: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > [NDISC]: Fix race in generic address resolution > > Confirmed that this is really the culprit by reverting this commit on top > of -rc2, which is now running fine. > > I'm using IPv6 (local network only) together with IPv4, use a bridge (br0) > and have an NFS4 mount active. I've encountered the same issue last Thursday. Here, I can hang my machine with ping6. I've also bisected it down to the same commit. I've sent some kernel traces which shows how the soft lock up occurs. See thread: "[PATCH][RFC] race in generic address resolution" http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg55375.html Benjamin >> Cheers,> FJP>> | ||||||||||||
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