Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: random hangs during boot in 3.0-rc | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:45:51 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 23:46 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > I have two machines that occasionally (like 1 in 10 boots or so) hang solid > during boot-up. Happens in different places, but usually either when loading > the microcode driver, or while doing a fsck. > > I did a bisect which took a *long* time, since I booted each kernel 10 times > before pronouncing it 'good'. Once it fingered the bad commit, I started over, > and arrived at the same conclusion a second time. > > But the actual commit is a merge commit. What now ? > > commit 42ac9e87fdd89b77fa2ca0a5226023c1c2d83226 > Merge: 057f3fa f0e615c > Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Date: Thu Apr 21 11:39:21 2011 +0200 > > Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc4' into sched/core > > Merge reason: Pick up upstream fixes. > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > > > It's possible I just didn't get 'lucky' and marked something as good, > when it wouldn't have triggered until the 11th boot, which is why I did that > second bisect run. Should I bother doing a 3rd try ? > > The kernels have a bunch of debug options turned on, but I don't get anything > out of the machine at all, it's just wedged solid.
Ditto here using a bug report config. Seems to be cured now.
> The machines I'm seeing this on are a quad-core AMD Phenom, and a Dual core2duo, > so quite disparate hardware. (And making me believe it's too coincidental to be a > hardware problem). > > Anyone else seeing anything like this ?
Maybe this?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/6/645
-Mike
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