Hi Ben, On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 2:23 AM Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > 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?
No, booting with that parameter makes no difference. > 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 For reference: root@kbitbucket:/home/jcalaby# cat /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0\:0\:0\:0/model ST9250315AS root@kbitbucket:/home/jcalaby# cat /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0\:0\:0\:0/rev LVM1 I'll try to acquire more information over the weekend. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.cal...@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/
