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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.12.5 hard lockups, nothing in logs.
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 10:40:14
Message-Id: 3436311.H14BWFzD9u@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.12.5 hard lockups, nothing in logs. by Bill Kenworthy
1 On Sunday, 20 August 2017 10:39:51 BST Bill Kenworthy wrote:
2 > On 20/08/17 17:21, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > On 20/08/2017 05:47, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
4 > >> Hi all,
5 > >>
6 > >> I am getting random lockups on kernel 4.12.5.
7 > >>
8 > >> Three intel hosts (atom, early i7, i7 haswell) - its worse after a
9 > >> suspend resume session. Because these are in use Ive gone back to
10 > >> 4.9.34 which is stable.
11 > >>
12 > >> I also have some VM's and an MS surface pro 4 which are stable on
13 > >> 4.12.5, 6 and 8) - confusing!
14 > >>
15 > >> Is anyone else seeing this?
16 > >>
17 > >> BillK
18 > >
19 > > Neil's reply elsewhere to Ralph may have the smoking gun clue.
20 > >
21 > > I'm seeing changes in 4.12 too and haven't bothered looking further as
22 > > 4.11 still works for me. My external monitors and USB keyboard & mouse
23 > > on laptops stopped working with 4.12 and other silliness which I forget.
24 > >
25 > > My techie spidey-sense is telling me it all smells a lot like someone
26 > > tidied up .config and things moved around, so make oldconfig got confused.
27 >
28 > Not to mention changing the bcache device numbering - instead of
29 > /dev/bacache0, /dev/bcache1 etc. its become /dev/bcache0, /dev/bcache16,
30 > /dev/bcache32, ... (offset of 16)
31 >
32 > That bit me too ...
33 >
34 > BillK
35
36 When running make oldconfig, which I prefer because it asks me to confirm
37 settings for all new modules, Alan should make sure CONFIG_USB=y is set so.
38 From what I recall the oldconfig default setting is 'not set', so user input
39 is required.
40
41 Unfortunately, I have no idea why Bill's hard lockups occur.
42 --
43 Regards,
44 Mick

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