Does that kernel contain the bug-fix that Joseph Salisbury gave us? In that case zRAM should not be used except maybe for the installer until that bug is fixed :-/
Best regards Nio On 2013-09-21 20:49, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hmm, link did not seem to go through.. > > I figured out a way to crash 3.11-rc1 every time, on this machine -- > goto ->FB and play a Zynga flash game in Firefox. BooM! Repeatable > time-after-after. LoL! > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > On 21 September 2013 19:43, Phill Whiteside <phi...@ubuntu.com > <mailto:phi...@ubuntu.com>> wrote: > > As I mentioned on the bug report, we may be facing more than one > bug. We can only deal with one issue at a time, the easiest one to > hit is does the new kernel stop the freeze when installation is > completed. Joseph has said that > the > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2162655&p=12735571#post12735571 > may well be a different bug. At this point, we do not have enough > information. If the ISO works, that is one off the list of bugs. If, > over time, we still have lockups then that may be a separate bug. > > IMHO, until the error reported via sudo parted -l Is resolved, there > is an issue. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > > On 21 September 2013 19:31, Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com > <mailto:nio.wikl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 2013-09-21 20:10, Lars Noodén wrote: > > On 09/21/2013 08:59 PM, JM wrote: > >> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:11:47 +0300 > >> Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com > <mailto:lars.noo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >>> On 09/21/2013 08:00 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > >>>> At this point it seems that we are trapped between a rock > and a hard place. > >>>> > >>>> Kernel team <> ISO team. ::SIGH:: Such frustrations led to > my resigning > >>>> from various teams, I've asked a couple of people who can > make an ISO with > >>>> the test kernel if they would. Other than that, my hands > are tied. > >>>> > >>>> We need an ISO with the patch that has been already applied > upstream into > >>>> it.... Grrrrr. > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Phill. > >>> > >>> I did try this kernel the other day and it did lock up just > like the one > >>> in the repository: > >>> > >>> linux-image-3.11.0-7-generic_3.11.0-7.14~lp1227202v1_amd64.deb > >>> > >>> I thought I wrote it in a message, but can't find it in my > archive, so > >>> maybe I didn't. > >>> > >>> So far turning off zram seems to be the only thing that > works. Or at > >>> least seems to work, so far so good. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> /Lars > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Here is Joyce Markoll, aka Mélodie. I have used zram for many > years in different shapes > >> (ramzswap once upon a time when it was only in the compcache > project) and I am very > >> interested to see it setup in Lubuntu. > >> > >> I wanted to join the testing since some time now but didn't > find the right moment for it > >> (except a fast test in a vbox machine some time ago), but now > I'm zsyncing the iso to > >> test it in one of my old machines. (T30 1 GB ram and intel > 1.86 Mhz proc). > >> > >> Just a thought: > >> have you set it up to create block devices which are as large > as 50% of > >> the available ram, and one of those block devices for each > processor detected, or did you > >> setup other values? > >> > >> which method is used to start it at boot time? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Mélodie > >> > >> -- > >> > >> LinuxVillage > >> http://linuxvillage.org > > > > I've used whatever the default for the recent ISOs has been. > If you > > have a recipe for how to create the block devices you mention, > I can try > > that in tomorrow's run. > > > > Regards, > > /Lars > > > I have managed to freeze the default daily build of today too, > but not > with Joseph Salisbury's kernel. I tried hard to do the same > things that > froze the standard kernel, but no, it did not freeze for me. > > I limited the RAM to 384 MB to force swapping. Typically it > would freeze > when I ran a youtube video and at the same time installed something > fairly big with apt-get. So Joseph's kernel is better, but > according to > your tests, Lars, it can also freeze, so the bug fix did not > take care > of everything. > > Lars, can you describe how you make Joseph Salisbury's kernel > freeze? > What environment, what programs etc so that I can try that too. > > Best regards > Nio > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
