After upgrading to the new kernel to take advantage of the built in RT61pci driver my computer freezes whenever I have a large download. This always happens, however never at the same spot in downloading (i.e. after X amount of bytes). I don't really know what to provide here to be helpful so I'll just include my emerge info and wait for someone to ask for more. Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.24-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="C" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 automount berkdb bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dri dvd dvdr dvdread emacs encode exif ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal hdri iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java jpeg jpeg2k ldap mad midi mjpeg mmx mmxext mono mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl php png pppd python q32 quicktime rar readline reflection samba session smp sound spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl tcpd theora threads tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vcd vorbis wmf wmp x264 xine xml xorg xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
Compile your kernel with CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ, and when the freeze happens, press some of the sysrq keys like: alt+sysrq+t alt+sysrq+b Does the system respond in any way?
I recompiled my computer with that option and the system does not output anything to the screen. Sorry any other suggestions?
possibly related http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9860
Looking at the upstream bug, it looks like this is fixed in 2.6.25 and can't really be fixed in 2.6.24. Please can you test the latest development kernel, currently 2.6.25-rc5, and see how things work there?
Please reopen when you have tested the latest development kernel
