Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 21:25 +1000, Julian Calaby wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 4.17.8-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (4.17.8-1) causes my laptop (Thinkpad X200) to fail to > boot. > > During a boot with Systemd the disk gets stopped erroneously approximately > after udev "coldplugs" anything that hasn't been autodetected already. > > This causes the kernel to stop the system disk causing the machine to hang > with all SATA requests eventually timing out and all startup processes > eventually failing. > > FROM MEMORY, the last disk related messages are: > > sda: Synchronising SCSI cache > sda: Stopping disk > > Please note that as I cannot boot that kernel, this bug report was compiled on > 4.16.0-2-amd64 (4.16.16-2) instead. > > Severity is relatively low as this laptop is the only computer I maintain that > has shown this behaviour (so far) which makes me think it's related to the > specific drivers I'm using, not something "generic" to this kernel version. > > Please let me know if there's any further details you need about my hardware > or system configuration. [...]
Does adding the kernel parameter "ahci.mobile_lpm_policy=1" avoid this?
Can you also run these commands to get the model and revision strings
for the HD, so this can be done automatically if necessary:
cat /sys/bus/scsi/devices/1:0:0:0/model
cat /sys/bus/scsi/devices/1:0:0:0/rev
Ben.
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thought. I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going
to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
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