[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-04-25 Thread Rocko
Another panic: netconsole managed to capture a long sequence of kernel oopses and the panic - see attached. ** Attachment added: "10.1.1.11-netconsole.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25957909/10.1.1.11-netconsole.log -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-04-20 Thread Rocko
My main laptop just froze again shortly after I resumed it (syslog attached; it crashed between 15:36 and 15:41, but there's nothing in the logs as usual and I didn't have the ethernet attached to catch the panic). The laptop is running kernel 2.6.28-11-generic #42 now, which is supposed to fix bu

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-04-16 Thread Rocko
Could this be related to bug #348836 (ext4: panic working with large files)? I'm using ext4 on both of the laptops that have kernel panicked, and they do have some large (10GB or so files) on them. I think some of the panics I experienced (on both laptops) happened around the time that the locate d

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-04-16 Thread Rocko
I see those REPLY_ADD_STA messages as well. I'm running the linux- backports-modules now on my main computer which has a new wireless stack and the main computer hasn't frozen in two weeks. However, my second laptop isn't running iwlagn - it's using ipw2200 - and it has panicked twice in three day

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-04-16 Thread Diego Schulz
My system (toshiba a305-s6894) panicked two times in less than 3 hours today. I'm also suspecting this has something to do with the iwlagn module. lspci | grep -i wireless 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100. Frequently I see those ugly messages from iwlagn in t

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-04-15 Thread Rocko
This second laptop froze again this morning sometime after the daily cron job started at 7:35. By 8:35 it had locked solid. There aren't any relevant messages in the logs. -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-12 Thread Rocko
Having said that, I just got a complete kernel freeze on *another* laptop with a freshly installed and updated Jaunty beta on it when I tried to run Firefox. uname -a gives: Linux galactica-jaunty 2.6.28-11-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 8 04:38:53 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Again, there is no info

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-12 Thread Rocko
Update: I haven't had a kernel freeze since I captured that oops on the 2nd of April. There have been a couple of kernel iterations since then (I'm now on 2.6.28-11.41). It might also be relevant that I've been using the backports module, which gives a new wireless stack, since approx the 6th of Ap

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-02 Thread Rocko
This is a log of another kernel oops, just in case it might be relevant. I get this almost every time I shutdown the PC, and I have to hit ctrl- alt-del to get it to continue. Note that it doesn't cause a complete panic though so it might not be related to this bug at all. ** Attachment added: "ne

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-02 Thread Rocko
Just noting that I don't think the iwlagn bug is relevant to the panic - I often see this in the message log and it doesn't appear to affect normal operation. Also, it happened a good two seconds before the actual panic. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- ker

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Dufresne
Marking bug as confirmed, sine we now have a possible Oops trace. I am trying to search a bit on Internet... Apr 2 19:24:50 10.1.1.11 [ 3125.417784] iwlagn: index 0 not used in uCode key table. http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1922 Searching update_curr linked to: Apr

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-02 Thread Rocko
I managed to trap a kernel panic ("NULL pointer dereference") with netconsole - see attached. I sure hope this helps fix it. ** Attachment added: "netconsole.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24687909/netconsole.log -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-02 Thread Rocko
I tried loading the system to force it to use swap by starting two VMs, each with 1800MB of memory, but what happened was that as soon as it started to hit swap (according to atop), X became completely unresponsive except for the mouse cursor - it didn't try to kill anything or kernel panic, it jus

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-01 Thread Rocko
This atop log is from a panic that happened in the afternoon. Firefox is taking 5% of memory for some reason. ** Attachment added: "crash.atop2" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24656640/crash.atop2 -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You receive

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-01 Thread Rocko
Here are two more atop logs from as I near as I can get to the first two panics. This one is for the first one mentioned in this bug report. There were logs every ten minutes until this time; the next one was the reboot at 07:44 so it seems reasonable to assume that the panicked panicked between 0

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-01 Thread Rocko
To rule out a bad hdd on the swap partition, I did a badblocks -w on it and it passed. -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-01 Thread Rocko
This is the log entry from atop approx seven minutes before the crash, in case it helps any. It doesn't look like anything was using a lot of memory other than cache (if I'm reading it right, it reports only 21MB free RAM but the most memory-hungry process is Xorg with only 3%). Looking through the

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-01 Thread Rocko
Right at the moment, gparted reports that the swap partition is mounted, and I'm pretty sure it has been for all of the kernel panics. I've got 4GB of RAM and 4GB of swap, and the system usually reports it is using most of the RAM (with lots of cache though) and hardly any swap. Do you mean that y

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Dufresne
I was not sure either what was this VM when I saw it first. Searching this on google I soon realized that this is Virtual Memory Manager. It looks like you did miss virtual memory, so Linux decided to find a good program to kill (linux kernel keep a score for that, OOM score I think, Out Of Memor

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-01 Thread Rocko
I've got netconsole running now in the hope that I'll get a crash while at home. The only output it logged during boot was a message about ucvideo, which I get every time I boot: Apr 1 23:17:33 10.1.1.11 [ 10.601911] uvcvideo: Failed to query (135) UVC control 1 (unit 0) : -32 (exp. 26). In ca

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-04-01 Thread Rocko
I spoke too soon: kernel 2.6.28-11#38 just panicked when I went to close a Firefox tab. The screen turned off; the keyboard is unresponsive; and the caps lock, wireless etc lights are flashing. This time though there was some information in the log files that might be relevant: Sys log: Apr 1 1

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-31 Thread Rocko
It hasn't panicked now during near-continuous operation for almost four days, so I suspect that the issue was located in the #37 release of the kernel (especially since a couple of others reported lock-ups with the Jaunty beta) but it is no longer in #38. -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Dufresne
god-mok said: >Maybe i should write a bug report of my own... Indeed. The fact that for Rocko it was stable with 2.6.28-10 and not for you suggest that it is a different bug. Even if it was not the case, it is hard to say if these kind of bugs are the same just by symptoms. -- kernel freeze in

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-30 Thread Rocko
Wow! As far as I know, I haven't lost anything due to these crashes, except for some zero-length object files created by the ext4 file system (I was doing a build at the time of the freeze, and the zero-length files is a known separate bug or 'feature'). Also, I found 2.6.28-10 to be stable - so fa

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-30 Thread god-mok
I got the same problem but a little worse: my whole home partition disappears after the freeze. The only thing i could do is to format it. It doesn't matter if it is a upgrade or fresh install that runs some hours, sometimes if i try to install new packages. I checked it with fsck, and it found ma

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-28 Thread Rocko
kern.log.0 shows a general protection fault in it (see attached), but I think that happened during shutdown (usplash). The kernel rarely manages to restart the computer on a shutdown or restart cycle, but stops instead near the end of shutdown (no consoles show any output) and needs to be restarted

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-28 Thread Paul Dufresne
Now I think about it, the first option will probably not work (keyboard lights flashing indicating something bad enough that the kernel decide it is better to stop everything). Which leads to second option: Netconsole. -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-28 Thread Paul Dufresne
Thank you for the memory check, and verifying it is not linked to SD card. You could check or attach /var/log/kern.log.0 file too. If you have an other computer to connect to it (or from it), you could try one of the following: -Remote Debugging in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSyst

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-28 Thread Rocko
Memory checked out fine; it's less than a year old, so I didn't expect any problems. I doubt it's anything to do with the mmcblk device, because I've had the kernel panic whether or not I used the SD card. -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-27 Thread Rocko
Here's the kernel.log from yesterday, in case it helps. The system crashed twice yesterday, one time just a few minutes after I'd rebooted with the nvidia 180.29 module in case it was nvidia causing the problems. The crash was around 16:00. The only 'unusual' thing I can see is that at one point i

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
Well, one way to help would simply to let it run idle on a console: Ctrl-Alt-F1 like all night long, and hoping to see a crash report happens on the console. Well, that is if you have a digital camera to take a picture of your screen. Making a memory test as described on: https://help.ubuntu.com/c

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Dufresne
Is there something that would looks like a crash log in /var/log/kern.log ? I suggest you read: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSystemCrash I have seens some errors related to your SD memory card in your dmesg.log. I doubt it has something to do, but yet, you could try to avoid using i

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-27 Thread Rocko
And it did it again just now (I had installed nvidia 180.29 module in case it was the newer modules doing something bad)... This indicates someone else also had a kernel panic with similar symptoms recently: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/317781/comments/189 -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-26 Thread Rocko
It just did it again. This is a critical bug for me. Is there anything I can do to help debug it? -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-26 Thread Rocko
There's a post on http://identi.ca/ (http://identi.ca/ketil) from 13 hours ago that says: "My #Jaunty has also had 2 hard locks with everything freezing ine the 36 hours since upgrading. Nothin short of a brutal restart has helped." so it might not be an isolated problem. -- kernel freeze in 2.

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-03-26 Thread Rocko
** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24375578/dmesg.log ** Summary changed: - kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 + kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530)

2009-03-26 Thread Rocko
I reinstalled linux-image yesterday after the last crash, just in case, and it did make it through the night without crashing this time. -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-03-26 Thread Rocko
** Attachment added: "version.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24375547/version.log -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bu

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-03-26 Thread Rocko
** Attachment added: "lspci-vvnn.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/2437/lspci-vvnn.log -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-03-26 Thread Rocko
I'll attach those files then. ** Attachment added: "uname-a.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24375542/uname-a.log -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 (Dell XPS M1530) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Dufresne
All linux's bugs reports at a minimum should contain the output of the following commands: * uname -a > uname-a.log * cat /proc/version_signature > version.log * dmesg > dmesg.log * sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log These four files should be attached to the b

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-03-25 Thread Rocko
It just happened again: Mar 26 13:50:01 pegasus-jaunty /USR/SBIN/CRON[29639]: (root) CMD ([ -x /usr/sbin/update-motd ] && /usr/sbin/update-motd 2>/dev/null) Mar 26 13:50:03 pegasus-jaunty NetworkManager: (wlan0): supplicant connection state: completed -> group handshake Mar 26 13:50:03 pegas

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-03-25 Thread Rocko
Cool trick! Does the info help any? I thought I'd already included most of that info in the original report. -- kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348731 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

[Bug 348731] Re: kernel freeze in 2.6.28-11

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Dufresne
Could you do: apport-collect 348731 please? I think sudo is not mandatory... but I am not sure. 348731 being the number of this bug. This is a trick on Jaunty to add the infos that would have been added if you would have done: ubuntu-bug -p linux to report the bug. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)