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I have been struggling for a few months with hard lock-ups when using |
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laptop-mode. Every 3-4 days, my laptop would freeze during the night, |
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with no message in the syslog, and for no apparent reason. The hard disk |
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activity light would always be on in the morning, which somehow made me |
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thing that it happened when the disk was started after an inactivity |
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period. Since I installed dbus and hald, the frequency increased to once |
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every night, which was a real pain. I don't think it has anything to do |
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with either dbus or hald, but they probably made the hard disk spin up |
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more often, therefore increasing the probability for the problem to happen. |
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Three days ago, I found this patch, which was accepted for 2.6.14, and |
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seems to work around a problem that sounds close enough: |
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http://tinyurl.com/b3y2d |
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It applies cleanly to gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10, which is what I'm |
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currently using. I quickly made an ebuild for it, attached below with |
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the patch from the address above. |
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Well, I don't like to shout victory too early, but I have had no crash |
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for the last three days, even with dbus and hald running. |
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Just thought this info might be interesting. |
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-- Remy |
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Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. |