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Description of problem: My Alienware laptop hangs (no keboard response, display frozen, power cycle to recover) The following repeatable conditions gnome-pilot backup of Palm Tungsten E2 via USB tar pipe restore from NAS via /net NFS mount vi /net NFS mount of mail Inbox when the vi is first access to the mount (vi causes mount) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Linux version 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 (kojibuilder.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 22:14:09 EST 2007 How reproducible: every time 8 trys Steps to Reproduce: 1.cd /net/nas/VOLUME1/EVOLUTION 2.tar cf - mail |(cd /home/jeniti/.evolution; tar xf - ) 3. Actual results: display freeze, no keyboard responce (not even the caps lock light) Expected results: data restored to disk Additional info: gnome-pilot backup hung and pilot gave incomplete message (tryed once) vi /net/nas/VOLUME1/EVOLUTION/mail/local/Inbox as the first access to the mount hung the system. the same vi with the mount already mounted from an ll worked fine /var/log/messages has no useful info except a stack warning on one of the tar attempts at Nov 26 09:22:10, hang Nov 26 09:23:28 This was a disk wipe install of FC8 (remove linux partions and rebuild option in install) FC8 is not usable if I can't restore my backups YUM updates work
Created attachment 274071 [details] lspsi and hdparm info to identify my hardware
Created attachment 274081 [details] messages log including 2 hangs tar pipe hang Nov 26 09:23:28 vi hang Nov 30 08:32:08 jpeaw gconfd (jeniti-3208): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 Nov 30 09:01:42 jpeaw rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="1.19.10" x-pid="2275"][x-configInfo udpReception="No" udpPort="514" tcpReception="No" tcpPort="0"] restart
Are these filesystems automounted?
(In reply to comment #3) > Are these filesystems automounted? > The /net is the mount point for the -hosts automount (yes for the tar and vi) the gnome-pilot backup was to a dir on the root (/) partition under my home the gnome-pilot backup hang is harder to reproduce because gnome-pilot does not work reliably I also go the vi hang on another try with the mount already mounted It appears to be related to large writes to the SATA disk, all hangs have occured when large writes should be taking place (vi creating its working file in /var/tmp, tar restoring to the mail dir, gnome-pilot backing up pilot device to dir under home. Thanks James PS If a bug catcher kernel can be made for this I am happy to help reprduce to catch traces or dumps
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