Bug 443591

Summary: Machine hangs for several minutes
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Juhani Jaakola <juhani.jaakola>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Juhani Jaakola 2008-04-22 13:08:12 UTC
Description of problem:

My system hangs for several minutes two or three times in a week. I keep the
machine on all the time. It has occurred almost ten times on an Acer laptop and
once on a no-name desktop system.

It happens usually when I'm watching and recording digital TV (using Cinergy T2
USB DVB-T tuner) in Kaffeine. Suddenly the picture and sound freezes. I can move
the cursor, but the screen does not react. Pressing the Caps Lock does not blink
the Caps Lock LED. After 1..20 minutes the sound and picture in Kaffeine start
running again. The system clock is not updated during the freeze, so after a
while ntpd writes to system log "time reset +1279.503359 s"!

Once the hang happened when Kaffeine was recording a TV program without
displaying it on the screen.

These hangs started about two months ago.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7
kaffeine-0.8.6-3.fc7
xine-lib-1.1.11.1-1.fc7.1

How reproducible:

It happens by itself 1..2 times a week. I can't make it happen on command.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Watch and record digital TV and wait.
  
Actual results:

System hangs for several minutes.

Expected results:

No hangs.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Juhani Jaakola 2008-04-22 20:13:54 UTC
Created attachment 303371 [details]
dmesg after two hangs

Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2008-04-29 16:28:07 UTC
Can you pinpoint where the hangs happened exactly? Maybe by looking in the
system log and checking the timestamps?

Comment 3 Juhani Jaakola 2008-04-29 17:14:25 UTC
I have looked at all files in /var/log which were changed about the time of the 
hang, but there are nothing.

The attached dmesg contains two hangs, but there is nothing special at the time 
of the hangs.

Do you have any ideas how I could prepare for the next hang?


Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 15:27:41 UTC
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 03:06:57 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
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