42649 – System locks up when left alone

Bug 42649 - System locks up when left alone

Summary: System locks up when left alone

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High critical (vote)
Assignee:	x86-kernel@gentoo.org (DEPRECATED)

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Reported:	2004-02-23 13:20 UTC by John Haiducek
Modified:	2004-04-16 17:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description John Haiducek 2004-02-23 13:20:48 UTC

Occasionally when I return to my system after leaving it alone for a while (an hour or two or overnight) I find the display frozen and the system unresponsive.  I cannot connect to the computer over the LAN.  I resort to using the power switch.  I can identify in /var/log/messages the times that this happens because I see a boot sequence with no "init: Switching to runlevel:6" preceding it, but I see nothing else unusual.

Reproducible: Didn't try
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I am running XFree86, the gnome-panel, Openbox3, and xscreensaver at the times
this occurs.

I am using apm, but apm should not have tried to suspend or hibernate the
computer under these conditions, nor have I seen apm cause a crash under other
circumstances.

The system is an IBM ThinkPad T30

emerge info output:

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-gentoo-r5)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
DISTDIR="/tmp/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp/portage"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apache apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd
fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww
mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam
perl php png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd
truetype video_cards_radeon x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Comment 1 Jason Cox (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-13 21:20:05 UTC

Could you try a newer kernl and see if that fixes it? Could you also try disabling apm if a newer kernel doesn't fix it?

Comment 2 Jason Cox (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-16 17:33:04 UTC

He's gone. No repsonse. Assuming fixed.