From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751156Ab0LULT7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:19:59 -0500 Received: from relay01.mx.bawue.net ([193.7.176.67]:34904 "EHLO relay01.mx.bawue.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750805Ab0LULT6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:19:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:19:57 +0100 From: Nils Radtke To: Linux Kernel-List Subject: acer travelmate 5220 crashes Message-ID: <20101221111957.GA8012@localhost> Reply-To: Nils Radtke Mail-Followup-To: Nils Radtke , Linux Kernel-List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Bkp: p2mi User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, First off: Thank you all for your work. Lately, running 2.6.37-rc5, the acer travelmate 5220 didn't for the first time crash within 10 days! Usually it crashed a couple of times a day. On a variety of kernels. X crashed, basically it crashed anything for nothing. Until these days. For all the crash logs, dumps and more google for acer 5220 lkml oops .. Ok, on day 11 it crashed again (*sniff). And yesterday again. (*sigh) But this is nothing compared to what we experienced before the 2.6.37-rc5 kernel. :) Yesterday however, something unusual happened: Using skype we held a phone conference, a couple of participants, nothing particular. Then out of a sudden (well, as always..) we dropped out of warp: X disappeared, we were taken back to a console, only to see the last lines of the oops msg to vanish at the top of the screen. It said, trying to kill idle task, kernel panic. Still while reading the message, we got a plain old telephony call from one of the participants, telling us that his notebook crashed. Wow! How that? Coincidence? I don't believe in that kind of things.. He had XP running, we were watching our kernel 2.6.37-rc5 dying, both had exclusively running skype, both crashed to pieces. I'd say, even with an evil app like skype, this devilish hack should not be able to take down the whole system, it seems - iff correlated - to affect both, Linux and Windos. Other ideas/opinions on this? Happy days, Nils