Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86194
kupdated eating 100% CPU, kernel freeze ++
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:02 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030206 Description of problem: After booting phoebe on an IBM Thinkpad T30, kupdated eats 100% CPU for atleast an hour, happens allways with the mentioned kernel. System randomly freezes while in console (text) mode. It apears to be related to simoltaneous usage of USB mouse and keyboard. Once the error occours, no keys on the keyboard work, and the power button is required. 1st time installing (upgrade of an 8.0 installation that worked just fine with kernel v2.4.20, phoebe also works fine with this kernel), the system froze just after installing LVM. After reboot the redhat installer requested to boot the system normally to do fsck, only problem was that the installer had among other things killed /bin/sh on this system, so it would not boot; thus fsck had to be ran from virtual console 2. Continuing the installation after a reboot caused numerous problems because the installer thought that /bin/sh was present (according to rpm, bash-2.05a-13 was installed). Some manual cp work + "rpm -qV" to find broken packages solved these problems. When installing (over ftp, using the pxeboot images loaded by grub), the installer insisted on using eth0. There was no option to use the wireless interface. On suspend (Fn-F4)-resume, the system frequently gets a "hda lost interrupt", after which the system is unable to access the HD, power-switch is required to resume operation. Even after "kbdrate -d 250 -s 30", the keyboard delay before autorepeat is > 1 sec. Finaly, a request: the installer should be rewritten so that it is easier to install a small system with only the needed components. This would require a graphic installer with a smart system for grouping packages allowing one to say "I don't program in C", "I do program in Python" and thus hide/show relevant packages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. install phoebe 2. see description 3. Additional info:
Just tested Redhat9. It hasn't crashed on me yet, but kupdated still eats 100% CPU.
Update: The crash seems to be fixed in RH9. Booting the machine without noflushd (v2.6.3), CPU usage is fine. If starting it, kupdated will eat 100% cpu even after noflushd is killed.
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