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arunvragh

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Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 111

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Kernel from kernel.org - since the day it was posted as stable. From testing just for an hour y'day. Unable to post config -- complains about being more than 64kb!!!

matahari

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From: Bandung, Indonesia

Registered: 2007-04-04

Posts: 59

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

arunvragh, what about just the diff, yours and this one http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/k … vision=302 ? thank you..

arunvragh

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Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 111

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

I started the diff. In the first 54 lines there are at least half a dozen. Better I post my config. How do I attach it to my post? Pl let me know. Let me try rapidshare.. here it is
http://rapidshare.de/files/39429937/config.html

Hope this helps. I'd like to mention that this is the same config from kernel 2.6.22.19 to kernel 2.6.25, kernel 2.6.25.1, 2 and 3

matahari

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From: Bandung, Indonesia

Registered: 2007-04-04

Posts: 59

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

arunvragh, thanks. anyway you could use http://rafb.net/paste/ for this kind of things, there's a tool called nopaste in community repo to make it easier

estangl

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Registered: 2008-05-17

Posts: 17

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Compaq N610C,
P4 1.8GHz, ATI M7500 using radeon driver
intel 845 chipset
kernel 2.6.24

glxgears runs OK.

Had a couple of hard random freezing in X without running anything.

Compiling packages with GCC (4.3.0) almost garranttees hard freezing (tried wine and firefox already), no matter in X or in console mode.

Where should I report this bug to?

Last edited by estangl (2008-05-19 14:24:43)

idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Compiling packages with GCC (4.3.0) almost garranttees hard freezing (tried wine and firefox already), no matter in X or in console mode.

When you say compile do you mean install it and refresh the system or actually compile every package?

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Shirakawasuna

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Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 94

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

So I take it there's still no resolution to the issue?

jmrbcu

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From: Cuba

Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 112

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

does anybody have and old 2.6.21 or older kernel? My X are crashing!!!

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estangl

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Registered: 2008-05-17

Posts: 17

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Compiling packages with GCC (4.3.0) almost garranttees hard freezing (tried wine and firefox already), no matter in X or in console mode.

When you say compile do you mean install it and refresh the system or actually compile every package?

Sorry I meant compiling packages from ABS or AUR.

I compile kernel 2.6.25 using ABS today and it died half way in the first time, died at packaging at the 2nd trial (luckily the building is finished).

I tried to compile firefox3-systemcairo it died fairly early on.

I compiled wine early on using make but crashed.

I did have some success tho such as libxlt-lcd fontconfig-lcd etc etc...

I tried ssh from other machine but no response after this sort of crashing -- so it might be more fundamental than X server.

I also noticed that the CPU frequency is around 900MHz when I crash. I disabled cpufrequntil in daemon but it did not help.

I am going to investigate whether it is because overheating of my old laptop (old good Compaq P-4 mobile 1.8GHz)

Shirakawasuna

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Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 94

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

This issue has disappeared for me w/ the 2.6.25 series (in the repos).

How's everyone else doing?

kungfoo

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Registered: 2006-09-09

Posts: 43

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Right now I don't see the problem with the same kernel. Hopefully it's gone. Have to admit though, that I booted Windows quite frequently due to OpenFalcon 4.5

RobbeR49

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From: Columbus, OH

Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 178

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

As soon as 2.26.25 hit testing a while back it eliminated my freezes for a while, but then when I upgraded the kernel again a couple weeks ago from core and got two more freezes, but I haven't had anymore since then.

arunvragh

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Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 111

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Well I am still on custom kernels compiled from kernel.org source packages. Never thought I'd get to relying on compiled kernels but I am actually enjoying it. I want to tinker with the config also a bit. kernelnewbies.org gives me some interesting possibilities.

I am not a techie, I've been using Linux for 8 years now - Seems like a little bit of adventure can be fun...

Incidentally my config remains the same from 2.6.22 till now. I've just been copying the old config right till 2.6.25.6

Works OK

estangl

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Registered: 2008-05-17

Posts: 17

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

I found my problem was CPU overheating..... Now I cushioned my laptop with a small plastic box and it works all right....

Ikarus

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-07-05

Posts: 41

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

I just compiled kernel 2.6.26-rc6 and the latest nvidia 177.13 beta but the random freezes of X are still there

EDIT

I just upgraded my xorg-server to ver 1.4.2 (repo is 1.4.0.90) and removed every patch that was applied in the PKGBUILD from abs. Seems like my hard freezes are gone, i will take a closer look at this and post anything new here.

Last edited by Ikarus (2008-06-18 14:35:48)

idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Any news?

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kungfoo

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Registered: 2006-09-09

Posts: 43

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Right now Xorg is b0rk again because of the new nvidia drivers. So no telling about the kernel issue...

kakaroto_BR

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Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 4

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Got a lockup today, one yesterday and a few last month. Running 2.6.25-rt on a Intel Dual Core. Complete freeze, no keyboard neither magic keys, etc. Its happening im my notebook since kernels 2.6.24 and above. Windows is fine, it´s complete nonsense, i dont understand.

thisllub

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From: Northern NSW Australia

Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 231

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Uptime over 5 days since setting ACPI=off in kernel parameters.

ACPI is a great weakness of Linux.

Edit Sorry that was the laptop.

noapic solved this machine.
# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux 
root   (hd2,0)
kernel  /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda1 ro noapic
initrd  /kernel26.img

Last edited by thisllub (2008-08-08 22:44:44)

idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Anyone else that got it fixed? I'm still sceptical of upgrading.

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kakaroto_BR

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Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 4

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

For me seems that its fixed, using kernel 2.6.26, fglrx, all the shiny laptop functions working, no lockups since a month.

idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Upgraded to 2.6.26 and three lockups today! And one time I had to manually fsck one disk that had a gazillion errors. It's starting putting me off arch .. It's not only the freezing either

I'll try the noapic first though

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idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Now I can't even find the 2.6.23 kernel anymore. Anyone know where to find it? I tried all the mirrors suggested on the downgrade package page in the wiki.

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Kernel 2.6.24 and hard freeze of x

Now I can't even find the 2.6.23 kernel anymore. Anyone know where to find it? I tried all the mirrors suggested on the downgrade package page in the wiki.

it's really quite simple, goto the arch svn repository and checkout the revision that was 2.6.23-ARCH kernel. Then you can build it yourself.

Though I think most of your problems reside from the fact that your still successfully using 2.6.23 arch kernel.

There is also a new version of xorg in testing. I am sure the problem has been resolved, but since you been using the 2.6.23 kernel for so long then you must also be using other old packages. Hence the issues you are having when upgrading to the newest kernel.

Last edited by jacko (2008-09-18 19:23:52)