Bug 1387856

Summary:	machine freezes with 4.9.0 kernel on playing any video
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, labbott, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
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Description Lokesh Mandvekar 2016-10-22 15:16:23 UTC

Description of problem:

streaming any video (youtube/netflix et.al) freezes my machine with 4.9.0 kernel. And this never happened on 4.8.0

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-4.9.0-0.rc1.git3.1.fc26.x86_64 
also  git2.1, git1.1 and rc0's etc.


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. play netflix

Actual results:


Expected results:
shouldn't freeze

Additional info:
let me know how i can help

Comment 1 Lokesh Mandvekar 2016-10-22 17:42:31 UTC

I see that running speedtest-cli also causes this issue.

Comment 2 Lokesh Mandvekar 2016-10-27 01:14:33 UTC

seeing this with kernel-4.9.0-0.rc2.git1.1.fc26.x86_64 as well

Comment 3 Laura Abbott 2018-04-06 18:18:28 UTC

Doing some pruning, this bug looks to be years old. Please test on a newer kernel and reopen if the problem still exists.