Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.23.1 Freezes on GB data transfers

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

Ray Lee wrote:
> On 10/17/07, Giangiacomo Mariotti <gg.mariotti@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Linux Kernel 2.6.23.1 freezes on GB data transfers.
>>
>> Pc completely freezed while transferring 4Gb of data from
>> dvd(/dev/hdc) to hd(nothing else was happening, cpu general usage at
>> 5-6%).Except for this,it has been working flawlessly for 1 day,but
>> when I tried to transfer 4Gb of data from the dvd to the hd,after
>> having completed 60% of the transfer, the system became completely
>> freezed,no keyboard,no mouse,no consoles,nothing, and the Caps Lock
>> LED started to blink.
> 
> The blinking Caps lock LED means that your system is Oopsing. Please
> try your test again from a console (not from X), and see if an oops
> message is printed out. If it is, you'll need to either copy it down
> or take a photograph of it with a digital camera, then post the text
> of it or post a link to the image.


I believe this is now the forth report of blinking-leds lockup with 2.6.23.1.

I wonder what's causing it?
My system has this as well, totally random, once every day or so.
New behaviour since 2.6.23-rc9 (I posted previously about this).

Cheers