Thinkpad random freezes (was Re: concerning X freeze recurring)

[Pekka Pietikainen]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:06:53PM +0200, Ola Thoresen wrote:
> > About once a day my system randomly freezes while running X (gnome). I
> > am not sure what debugging info to collect at this point, here are some
> > details:
> > 
> > -This is a t42 thinkpad
> > -it happens about once per day
> > -it does not seem to matter what applications are running
> I see something similar, but it may not be related at all.
> This is a "no name" latop, Pentium M 1.6, 512 MB ram, running
> fedora-development. 
> I have thought it has been a problem with cooling or some other hardware
> error, but it could ofcourse be something else, in which case I'd love
> to be able to debug some more.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-test-list&m=116040357729255&w=2

for my datapoints. Try acpi=off to see whether it makes any difference.

I actually have a new datapoint too. I now have an identical laptop as the
first one (X31), with a much older BIOS:

BIOS Information
        Vendor: IBM
        Version: 1QET73WW (2.11 )
        Release Date: 02/13/2004
OEM Strings
        String 1: IBM ThinkPad Embedded Controller -[1QHT16WW-1.03    ]-

(the one that crashes is 3.02/1.08). This one does _not_ crash with ACPI.
Exact same installation (I swapped harddrives). 

Oddly, the wireless in this one doesn't work very well. Aironet in both,
same firmware version too! NetworkManager just refuses to connect, and even
when I manually iwconfig/dhclient it's very reluctant to associate. At home
where I have WEP on, I have to play with iwconfig eth1 key [1] / [2] / [3] ,
and eventually it associates and works. Well, I just plugged in a prism54
and now it's happy ;)

I think I'll take both laptops home and play with them during the weekend
Maybe see whether there are any differences in the BIOSes as seen
by that intel firmware testing tool.

Hmm... Seems like there are enough clues for a bugzilla entry. I'll do a bit
of poking around still and do one if nobody gets around first.

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Pekka Pietikainen