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Hello list, |
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recently my netbook got the habit of freezing sporadically. It happens |
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apparently out of the blue. Until now I thought it might have something |
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to do with audio playback, because I remember always having music |
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playing when it happens. But just now it happened without music: |
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One second I was surfing along, the other second -- dead. While I was |
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already 3 hours in of a 4-hour emerge. :-( |
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If music is playing at a freeze, the last bit of it (less than a |
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second's worth) is looped indefinitely. The screen output is still |
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there, but there is no reaction to any input, not even sysrequests. |
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I also tried SSHing in without success. |
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I have no experience with Kernel debugging. Is there any possibility at |
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all of finding out what the problem is? Perhaps enable some log output? |
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Being a netbook, there is no serial port (which I don't have the means |
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to connect to anyway). In the hopes that the problem started with a 3.9 |
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kernel, I am building a 3.8.13 again (using kernel.org archives). |
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I ran a memtest a few months back and stopped it after 8 successful |
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passes. I might try that again as soon as I find out how¹, but I'd |
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think that a corrupt memory would cause something different than a full |
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freeze. |
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I'm running a 64 bit kernel and 32 bit userland with march=atom. I'd |
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really hate to find out the machine has a hardware problem, it's a very |
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neat piece of silicon with a great screen. Who cares that the 6.5 Watt |
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CPU is a tad slow. It's perfect for a console environment. :-) |
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¹ I have the in-kernel memtest enabled, so I tried booting it with the |
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"memtest" option right after the last freeze happened. But all I got |
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was a black screen with blinking cursor. |
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-- |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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The circle is the parallel to the dot. |