Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2: reproducible hang on shutdown on i386

Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-23T14:44:24Z

On Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, 20 October 2006 10:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc2/2.6.19-rc2-mm2/
> >
> > - Added the IOAT tree as git-ioat.patch (Chris Leech)
> >
> > - I worked out the git magic to make the wireless tree work
> > (git-wireless.patch). Hopefully it will be in -mm more often now.
>
> [Margin note: bcm43xx doesn't work on my test boxes although it used to on one
> of them, but I have to play with it a bit more.]
>
> It looks like i386 cannot shut down cleanly with this kernel. On my test
> boxes (2 of them) it hangs after killing all processes, 100% of the time.

I've carried out a binary search which shows that

add-process_session-helper-routine-deprecate-old-field-fix-warnings.patch

causes this to happen.

Greetings,
Rafael

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