gateway AMD64 laptop locks up once or twice a day

Kirk kirk202 at gmx.us
Wed Apr 8 18:21:06 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:09 +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
> 2009/4/8 shmuel siegel <fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu>:
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>
> >>  on my gateway MX7120 (amd 64 athlon cpu), my desktop locks up hard
> >> maybe once or twice a day -- the only thing still functional is the
> >> cursor, which has the "I" format.  that's it -- i can move the cursor
> >> around via the USB mouse but nothing else -- no switching virtual
> >> desktops, no activating windows, no menu selections, no virtual
> >> consoles, no Ctrl-Alt-Bksp to kill my X session, nothing.  my only
> >> option is a hard power down and reboot.
> >>
> >>  thoughts?  i'd bugzilla this but i have no idea what i'd be
> >> bugzilla'ing.
> >>
> >> rday
> >> --
> >>
> >
> > see if this is relevant - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473689
> >
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>  I think I have the same problem but I cannot give you more
> information. the lockups happen randomly (2 times for less than 1 hour
> and 0 in the last 5 weeks)
> 
> @ robert:
> 
> can you post your smolt profile? mine:
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_1ea45a8d-e70f-424f-aeab-c04eaec10b6f
> 
> I think (in my case) it has something to do with cpufreq and the
> power-management. The only way to force reproduce this is (under
> windows) when i change the cpu-multi before changing the voltage. the
> lockup is exactly the same in linux (comparing the results of what's
> shown on the screen which is the only thing I can see) but I cannot
> reproduce it under linux . the kernel doesn't show any panics when
> looking in the messages after the hard-reset. the same for the
> xorg.0.log.old
> 
> Both problems could be totaly different, though.
> 

I have the same problem with my Sony and filed this report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494435

-Kirk




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