On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:23:07PM +0000, David wrote:
> I've been testing rc1 for a week or so, and about 25% of the time I'm
> seeing Firefox and Thunderbird getting stuck in 'D' state as they startup.
> 
> I've attached the output of Sysrq-T to this mail... system is a
> dual-core AMD64, and files are on a RAID-1 root partition connected two
> SATA disks on the on-board NVidia controller. I've had no problems
> before .24 rc1

David, thank you for the reporting.

Could you try with the attached 4 patches? Two of them are expected to
fix your problem, another two are debugging ones(in case the problem
persists).

Thank you,
Fengguang