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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Does that kernel contain the bug-fix that Joseph Salisbury gave us?

In that case zRAM should not be used except maybe for the installer
until that bug is fixed :-/

Best regards
Nio

On 2013-09-21 20:49, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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#post12735571
>     may 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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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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