Bug 1387856 - machine freezes with 4.9.0 kernel on playing any video
Summary: machine freezes with 4.9.0 kernel on playing any video
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2016-10-22 15:16 UTC by Lokesh Mandvekar
Modified: 2018-04-06 18:18 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-04-06 18:18:28 UTC
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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.
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