hwtest-gtk "crashes" and consumes 100% cpu power

[Christopher Denter]

Hey,
this is Hardy Alpha 6 fully updated.

I just ran hwtest-gtk several times and it often crashes at the "Is this screensize fitting?"-question.
I then noticed that the process wasn't killed and consumes 100% cpu power, causing my fans to run permanently.

Any further information I can provide?

regards

[Christopher Denter (dennda)]

Sorry, I forgot to add that it crashes as soon as I hit the Next button.

(I have seen the next question with the video window once or twice, but when that was the case, it crashed there.)

regards

[crashsystems (crashsystems)]

I've tried running hwtest-gtk several times now, on the off chance that info about my hardware might be useful to you developers. However, the program always seems to freeze up and use 100% cpu power for CPU1. This happened right after I clicked "Next" after the question about the mouse working (which it does). So I decided to do a bit more research. After looking into cpu consumption per process, I found that lshw seems to be the culprit. I ran a strace on both twtest-gtk and lshw, and included the output from both in the tarball attached. Also in the tarball is the output from lshal, which I hope gives enough insight into the hardware I am running on this laptop (Dell Inspiron 1420).

I hope that the information I have given is useful. If not, feel free to email me with any requests you may have for further testing.

- Douglass

[crashsystems (crashsystems)]

I forgot to mention in my previous post, but the the version I ran this test on is Ubuntu 8.04 Beta.

[BlackAdder (jan-doornaert)]

I have the same problem as "crashsystems" - but in my case the machine completely hangs (only prower-cycling "helps") and the LEDs of the both the caps lock ans scroll lock started blinking. I updated and restarted the machine (after seeing hwtest being updated I hoped this problem would've gone) to make a "clean start".

[BlackAdder (jan-doornaert)]

...and it would seem this problem has a "deeper" cause: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hwtest/+bug/202460/comments/16
Anyone knowing when the patch will get incorporated in Hardy's code base? Thx.

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

This bug will unfortunately not be fixed in time for hardy final.

[BlackAdder (jan-doornaert)]

The lshw-update currently in "hardy-proposed" fixed the issue in my case. Thanks!
(and this report is indeed a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hwtest/+bug/202460)