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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As I mentioned on the bug report, we may be facing more than one bug. We
can only deal with one issue at a time, the easiest one to hit is does the
new kernel stop the freeze when installation is completed. Joseph has said
that the
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2162655&p=12735571#post12735571may
well be a different bug. At this point, we do not have enough
information. If the ISO works, that is one off the list of bugs. If, over
time, we still have lockups then that may be a separate bug.

IMHO, until the error reported via sudo parted -l Is resolved, there is an
issue.

Regards,

Phill.


On 21 September 2013 19:31, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2013-09-21 20:10, Lars Noodén wrote:
> > On 09/21/2013 08:59 PM, JM wrote:
> >> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:11:47 +0300
> >> Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 09/21/2013 08:00 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> >>>> At this point it seems that we are trapped between a rock and a hard
> place.
> >>>>
> >>>> Kernel team <> ISO team. ::SIGH:: Such frustrations led to my
> resigning
> >>>> from various teams, I've asked a couple of people who can make an ISO
> with
> >>>> the test kernel if they would. Other than that, my hands are tied.
> >>>>
> >>>> We need an ISO with the patch that has been already applied upstream
> into
> >>>> it.... Grrrrr.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Phill.
> >>>
> >>> I did try this kernel the other day and it did lock up just like the
> one
> >>> in the repository:
> >>>
> >>> linux-image-3.11.0-7-generic_3.11.0-7.14~lp1227202v1_amd64.deb
> >>>
> >>> I thought I wrote it in a message, but can't find it in my archive, so
> >>> maybe I didn't.
> >>>
> >>> So far turning off zram seems to be the only thing that works.  Or at
> >>> least seems to work, so far so good.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> /Lars
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Here is Joyce Markoll, aka Mélodie. I have used zram for many years in
> different shapes
> >> (ramzswap once upon a time when it was only in the compcache project)
> and I am very
> >> interested to see it setup in Lubuntu.
> >>
> >> I wanted to join the testing since some time now but didn't find the
> right moment for it
> >> (except a fast test in a vbox machine some time ago), but now I'm
> zsyncing the iso to
> >> test it in one of my old machines. (T30 1 GB ram and intel 1.86 Mhz
> proc).
> >>
> >> Just a thought:
> >> have you set it up to create block devices which are as large as 50% of
> >> the available ram, and one of those block devices for each processor
> detected, or did you
> >> setup other values?
> >>
> >> which method is used to start it at boot time?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Mélodie
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> LinuxVillage
> >> http://linuxvillage.org
> >
> > I've used whatever the default for the recent ISOs has been.  If you
> > have a recipe for how to create the block devices you mention, I can try
> > that in tomorrow's run.
> >
> > Regards,
> > /Lars
> >
> I have managed to freeze the default daily build of today too, but not
> with Joseph Salisbury's kernel. I tried hard to do the same things that
> froze the standard kernel, but no, it did not freeze for me.
>
> I limited the RAM to 384 MB to force swapping. Typically it would freeze
> when I ran a youtube video and at the same time installed something
> fairly big with apt-get. So Joseph's kernel is better, but according to
> your tests, Lars, it can also freeze, so the bug fix did not take care
> of everything.
>
> Lars, can you describe how you make Joseph Salisbury's kernel freeze?
> What environment, what programs etc so that I can try that too.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>



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