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thesystematic

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Registered: 2013-02-08

Posts: 44

System crash after recent update

Hi all,

As of yesterday, my laptop has started crashing after a little while open (sometimes right away, sometimes ten minutes in, sometimes right after bios). I believed it was to do with the recent alsa-utils update and I downgraded that package which helped for a little bit. When it updated again and the core dump from the previous update disappeared, I upgraded and the problem starting happening again. Then I downgraded and no change.
So I think it is not to do with alsa anymore...but I can find no information at all in dmesg or journalctl. There seem to be no errors, warnings whatsoever. I have tried chrooting in and looking at all the logs but to no avail.

The update that broke my system installed the following:

alsa-lib alsa-utils gcc-libs gcc isl kmod libcdio-paranoia pyalpm namcap

I have since downgraded both isl and kmod and it looks my laptop is running okay so far. After this update I also updated the kernel, but running from the fallback initramfs did not change the issue so I don't think it was that either.

I have trawled the forums for recent problems with recent updates .ut did not find anything apart from the alsactl core dump.

Does anyone know if there are any problems with the above packages? Or if there are other important logs other than journactl, dmesg, and pacman.log I can try looking at to troubleshoot this? I apologise for not being able to provide much more information, as I said I can't seem to find anything out of the ordinary in the aforementioned logs.

Any help would be appreciated.

thesystematic

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Registered: 2013-02-08

Posts: 44

Re: System crash after recent update

Crash still occurs...now found this in dmesg

[    2.425173] ACPI Warning: 0x000000000000f040-0x000000000000f05f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 (20121018/utaddress-251)
[    2.425179] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[    2.425250] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \PMIO 1 (20121018/utaddress-251)
[    2.425254] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[    2.425258] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000530-0x000000000000053f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPIO 1 (20121018/utaddress-251)
[    2.425260] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[    2.425261] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPIO 1 (20121018/utaddress-251)
[    2.425263] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver
[    2.425264] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich

I have looked online about these though, and so far it looks like it doesn't actually make anyone crash

EDIT: Also found that this is not actually a kernel bug...hmm.

Last edited by thesystematic (2013-04-16 00:51:03)