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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, link did not seem to go through..

I figured out a way to crash 3.11-rc1 every time, on this machine -- goto
->FB and play a Zynga flash game in Firefox. BooM! Repeatable
time-after-after. LoL!

Regards,

Phill.


On 21 September 2013 19:43, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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