Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 127081
system freezes after 20 mins unless acpi=off
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:07:35 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: On my slightly older Gericom M6-T laptop, unless I disable acpi with acpi=off, the machine reliably freezes after about 20 minutes. This happens no matter whether or not acpid is running. Unfortunately, without acpi enabled, the network card isn't properly initialised, which makes FC2 unusable... Oh, the machine still responds to pings and allows connects to all open ports, but won't run any services on those ports anymore. Nothing in any logfiles, no kernel messages on screen or anything like that. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.6-1.435 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot machine with acpi=on 2. wait 20 minutes 3. watch it freeze Actual Results: machine froze Expected Results: machine should have run happily everafter Additional info:
Is there a power management setting in your BIOS for automatic sleep after 20 minutes of inactivity or something like that? It's a stab in the dark, but perhaps something worth checking...
nope, nothing like that. By the way, the same thing happened to me with SuSE Linux as well, until their most recent kernel update (July 1st), which seems to have fixed it.
You may want to try a test kernel from one of these sources, to see whether the problem still happens: + rawhide (a.k.a. FC-devel) + FC 3 test 1 + http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/
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