Bug 730509

Upgraded to kernel-2.6.40.3-0.fc15.i686. It still freezes.

Is there any workaround until this bug is fixed?

Given the original report didn't include any information other than some kernel (which we didn't know the version of) randomly freezes, and the previous kernel (which we also didn't know the version of) doesn't, the workaround is to use the kernel that doesn't freeze.

If we're going to make any progress from here, we need a bit more information.  It's good to know that 2.6.40.3-0.fc15 is one of the versions that freeze.  Which version doesn't?

What kind of network hardware is being used?

Can you be a bit more specific about the workload running?

Can you try the kernel-debug-2.6.40.3-0.fc15 build and see if we can capture some more debug information?

Assuming this is network related, ssh'ing into the machine probably won't be possible but it is worth a try.  If that for some reason works, it would be good to know if dmesg or /var/log/messages has any oops data in them.

The other bug I filed is this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708202 and it has a different problem, but eventually that freezes as well.

SSH doesn't work. The PC is completely frozen.

The ethernet card is Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)

Isn't the dmesg output reset when I boot? So I don't see how to get that when the PC is frozen and the only thing possible is a hard reset.

Output of cat /var/log/messages | grep -i oops is attached but there's nothing in there other than selinux errors.

I'll try the debug build now.

Created attachment 518923 [details]
oops.txt

Sorry, forgot to mention that all kernels cause the system to freeze though this one makes it freeze faster than the others (within an hour or two after boot). 

I've tried kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 and kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.i686 before this.

kernel-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686 runs fine for a day or two but once I start getting bug #708202, it could freeze anytime.

Looks like a Heisenbug. It stopped freezing when I use kernel-debug.

I've had the system on for the past 3 days and it hasn't frozen yet. I've put the system to sleep several times in between. I've played a few videos and music. I've transferred around 50 GB across the LAN and there seems to me no issue.

I'll leave it running on kernel-debug. Hopefully it'll freeze and I'll get that log we're looking for.

this part in your logs is interesting..

Aug 15 22:02:25 workstation kernel: [144533.030810] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
Aug 15 22:02:26 workstation kernel: [144533.059001]  [<c07d776b>] oops_end+0xa2/0xa8
Aug 16 00:57:09 workstation kernel: [155017.424011] Oops: 0000 [#2] SMP 

There should be stack traces around there.  We'll need to see the full dump to diagnose further.

Created attachment 519370 [details]
Oops

ah, that's from the .38 kernel. That particular bug was widely reported, and is fixed in the .40 kernel.   So it doesn't give any clues as to what's causing your .40 lockups.

Hopefully the -debug build will pick up something eventually.

The system froze twice today when I was using kernel-debug. But there's no stacktrace or the mention of kernel oops or any bug in /var/log/messages.

I'm not sure anymore if the freezing bug is related to the kernel. I spend around 15 hours in front of the computer everyday and it never freezes when I'm using it. The freezes always occur when I'm not using it. This makes me suspect if it has something to do with turning the display off when the computer is left idle (It was set to 1 hour). So I decided to do some tests.

I set it to 1 minute and waited. It went upto the part where the display slowly turns off. I hit capslock a few times to check if the system is frozen, but instead it rebooted the computer for some reason.

I then repeated this test several times and it didn't freeze. After 5 or 6 times of repeated tests, it froze as soon as the display went off and I had to do a hard reset. I repeated the test again several times and it didn't freeze. Then once again it froze.

So this might be related to the display turning off because I can make it freeze more often than before but I can't reproduce it in a consistent manner.

A temporary workaround I'm using around this is by adding the following to crontab:

*/1 * * * * env DISPLAY=:0.0 xte 'mousermove 1 1'

Can this bug be reassigned to the appropriate package or do I need to file it again?

Are you still seeing this with 2.6.43/3.3?

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