kernel lockup?
*please cc the replies to me*
hello
i have been getting some (i thought) kernel lockups. only a hard reset would help. originally i thought it was the emu10k1 sb live driver, and i read that 2.4.7 didn't have the problem (i was using 2.4.8). i also tried using alsa, which didn't work either.
however, after seeing it still happening, i am led to believe that it may be some power management problem or not a kernel problem at all... (in which case this mailing list is NOT where i should be posting, sorry for the distraction if i am wrong). the lockup only happens after extended periods of idle time (specifically in the morning after a night of not using the computer). the sysrq works, so i guess it isn't a hard lockup? if it is kernel...what then? if not...what could be the problem?
thx
--sam
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however, after seeing it still happening, i am led to believe that it may be some power management problem or not a kernel problem at all...
It may be several things
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(in which case this mailing list is NOT where i should be posting, sorry for the distraction if i am wrong). the lockup only happens after extended periods of idle time (specifically in the morning after a night of not using the computer). the sysrq works, so i guess it isn't a hard lockup? if it is kernel...what then? if not...what could be the problem?
That sounds like the kernel. At 4am lots and lots of I/O intensive things occur (reindexing the locate cache, removing dead files from /tmp and so on) If it was a BIOS bug I'd expect it to occur at arbitary times when the box is idle not the morning after