Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1761 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/14/2010 03:57 AM, C wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:22, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Currently with 11.3
> > my trusty old laptop hardlocks so frequently (every 5-10 minutes) that it is
> > unusable with 11.3 and I basically just ssh into it to troubleshoot now --
> > much less actually use it.
>
> Have you tried updating the Kernel?  On every machine that has had
> locking issues (only one or two out of several installs now), a simple
> bump to the next Kernel 2.6.35 has sorted it all out.
>
> <no comment on the rest of the moaning... it's tiresome>
>
> C.

I'm working to build a krashdump kernel to troubleshoot:

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628166

which I haven't had time to do until today -- hopefully it will expose whatever 
the nasty little bug in 2.6.34 is. I've had great luck with 2.6.35.1 from Arch, 
the 2.6.34 kernel there suffered from a similar lockup problem. The key here is 
to identify what the issue was so it doesn't propagate forward in the kernel and 
bite us again in 2.6.36 :p


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