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From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: chris2553@googlemail.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Subject: Re: System lockup with 2.6.38-rc4+
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:09:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwrqxzcw.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102141731.29331.chris2553@googlemail.com>

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:31:29 +0000, Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not subscribed, so please cc me on any reply.
> 
> I've just had a complete system lock up with a kernel that I pulled, built and 
> installed yesterday morning. IT was locked hard and I had to power off and on 
> to get it back.
>
It looks like the GPU barfed. If you SSH'd in to the machine you'd find
that everything but the display and resources held by the hung X server
would be fine. Were you doing anything particular in your X session when
this happened? There's a good chance this isn't actually a kernel bug
but instead is a DRI client doing something dumb.

Cheers, 

- Ben

P.S. The bzipped kernel image generally won't help in diagnosing the
problem. The most important thing to include in a bug report is the
kernel version and the dmesg output from the failure if available. Folks
will ask later if more is necessary.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-14 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-14 17:31 System lockup with 2.6.38-rc4+ Chris Clayton
2011-02-14 18:09 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2011-02-14 19:21   ` Chris Clayton

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