If you dont need rt kernel why are you installing it? --------------------------------- Support software for non profit, buy Android phones. On Sep 2, 2012 12:33 PM, "Alister Fisher" <alist...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Julien > > It's the family HTPC/television system. The crash occurs approximately > once per hour. > > It occurs when there is a major screen change, e.g. on transition from the > show to an advert or while jumping forward. > This problem started after upgrading nvidia 302.17-3. I suspect the kernel > became RT at the same time. > > Crash scenarios: > - 80% of crashes the PC reboots, BIOS POST, etc. > - 20% of crashes, the screen freezes and the PC loops the last 100ms or > so of audio. When this occurs the PC is non-responsive. I have to reset it. > > After the PC has rebooted (warm boot): > - 70% of reboots, it crashes looping: "udevd[81]: timeout: killing > '/sbin/modprobe"... as I'd described in message #10. The method I'd found > to recover is to reboot again, select an earlier kernel at grub, let it > fail because module nvidia is not found, then Alt-F1 to tty1 and reboot > again. > - 30% of reboots, it boots clean. > > If the kernel crashes on boot, it will crash on every boot until it's > booted to the earlier kernel. > My newest kernel is 3.2.0-3-rt-amd64. > My earlier kernel is 3.2.0-3-amd64. > > Power-on (cold boot ) crashes about the same % as warm boots. > > The attached dmesg was collected after booting to the earlier kernel, then > booting back to the newer kernel. > > Thanks > Alister > > >