Sunday, May 11, 2008
Hardy Heron Lockups: interesting reading
I've started following some threads on the ubuntu forums website and the launchpad website. My primary desktop and my laptop are both running Hardy 8.04 with the -16 kernel, and I have had lockups on the desktop but not on the laptop. We'll see where this gets me.
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I am starting to suspect I have a bad driver/hardware combination ... either the DVD R/W or my new ATI Radeon using the proprietary fglrx driver ... I had full system crashes this morning already.
one of them occurred after this curious message appeared in the kernel.log
May 12 09:31:29 ryan kernel: [ 6633.855674] npviewer.bin[6836]: segfault at 430a312e rip 430a312e rsp ffcc4ccc error 14
after two more system crashes while trying to rip a cd with Audio CD Extractor I definitely suspect my Sony DRU...here is the print out from hwinfo on it ...
4: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_RW_DRU_510A'
storage.firmware_version = '1.0d'
info.vendor = 'SONY'
storage.lun = 0 (0x0)
storage.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer'
storage.removable.media_available = false
linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3)
storage.removable.support_async_notification = false
storage.cdrom.cdr = true
storage.removable = true
storage.cdrom.cdrw = true
info.product = 'DVD RW DRU-510A'
storage.size = 0ull (0x0ull)
storage.cdrom.dvd = true
storage.hotpluggable = false
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_RW_DRU_510A'
storage.cdrom.dvdr = true
storage.requires_eject = true
storage.cdrom.dvdrw = true
storage.cdrom.dvdram = false
storage.partitioning_scheme = ''
storage.cdrom.dvdplusr = true
block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_RW_DRU_510A'
storage.cdrom.dvdplusrw = true
storage.cdrom.dvdplusrwdl = false
storage.cdrom.dvdplusrdl = false
storage.cdrom.bd = false
storage.cdrom.bdr = false
storage.cdrom.bdre = false
storage.cdrom.hddvd = false
storage.cdrom.hddvdr = false
access_control.file = '/dev/scd0'
storage.cdrom.hddvdrw = false
access_control.type = 'cdrom'
storage.cdrom.mo = false
info.callouts.add = { 'hal-acl-tool --add-device' }
storage.cdrom.mrw = true
info.callouts.remove = { 'hal-acl-tool --remove-device' }
info.category = 'storage'
storage.cdrom.mrw_w = true
info.capabilities = { 'storage', 'block', 'storage.cdrom', 'access_control' }
storage.cdrom.support_media_changed = true
storage.cdrom.support_multisession = true
block.device = '/dev/scd0'
storage.cdrom.read_speed = 5645 (0x160d)
block.major = 11 (0xb)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sr0'
storage.cdrom.write_speed = 4234 (0x108a)
info.addons = { 'hald-addon-storage' }
block.minor = 0 (0x0)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_197b_2363_0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0'
info.interfaces = { 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage', 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable' }
storage.cdrom.write_speeds = { '4234' }
block.is_volume = false
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_names = { 'Eject', 'CloseTray' }
storage.bus = 'scsi'
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_signatures = { 'as', 'as' }
storage.no_partitions_hint = true
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_argnames = { 'extra_options', 'extra_options' }
storage.media_check_enabled = true
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_execpaths = { 'hal-storage-eject', 'hal-storage-closetray' }
storage.automount_enabled_hint = true
storage.drive_type = 'cdrom'
storage.model = 'DVD RW DRU-510A'
storage.vendor = 'SONY'
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