[SOLVED] Laptop freezes under certain operations with kernel 3.17.2

SkyOwl · 2014-11-13 22:55:40

Hi,

after certain operations, loading a few pictures with high resolutions being the only one I'm aware of for now, my laptop freezes and is unresponsive. I can't even reboot using the magic sysrq keys. It has happened several times today with the linux kernel 3.17.2. I tried different flavours of the kernel keeping the same version, even compiling my own. I was able to figure out only one specific operation which causes it, the one I mentioned before.

It's a very old laptop and I don't know what to post to help find the issue but here is the output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
08:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
08:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
08:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
08:06.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller
08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 01)

journalctl doesn't give anything specific and ends abruptly at the last successful operation then logs only the hard reboot I did with reset.

Everything seems okay with the LTS kernel 3.14.23 and it even solves a problem I encountered with ALSA in the newer kernels: basically the Master mixer control stopped working and I could adjust my volume only with PCM but it started functioning again with the LTS kernel.

I use btrfs on external HDDs and it's my only reason for needing a recent version of the kernel to avoid any problems with it. Moreover, I fear the issues will reappear when 3.17.2 replaces the current LTS version.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Last edited by SkyOwl (2014-11-14 12:31:15)

jasonwryan · 2014-11-14 00:28:49

Possibly related: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42353

SkyOwl · 2014-11-14 12:30:23

That's most likely it. I'll tag this thread as solved and wait for 3.17.3. Thank you.

I'll eventually open a new thread about my ALSA problem with 3.17.2.

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#1 2014-11-13 22:55:40

[SOLVED] Laptop freezes under certain operations with kernel 3.17.2

#2 2014-11-14 00:28:49

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop freezes under certain operations with kernel 3.17.2

#3 2014-11-14 12:30:23

Re: [SOLVED] Laptop freezes under certain operations with kernel 3.17.2

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