ipw2200 repeatedly crashes.

[Stewart Smith]

As of yesterday, very regularly (has happenned about once per hour so far today) everything freezes up. Cannot move mouse, switch console etc.

Can Sysrq reboot - that's about it.

Things that could be different these past two days:

I got one crash while on console, it was inside the intel 8x0 snd driver. I have been working with sound muted, i've stopped that now.

The wireless network i'm on is a bit flakey, ipw2200 network card.

Or, maybe it just doesn't like me being in Italy.

It also doesn't help that when running X I can't see the backtrace for the crash.

[Stewart Smith (stewart)]

another person at this conference noticed my blog entry about frequent freezes. He was also experiencing the same thing. He's running SuSE with a 2.6.10 based kernel. Same wireless driver though.

Could point towards wireless driver freezes.

[Baishampayan Ghose (b.ghose)]

Did you try with Dapper Flight 5? If this bug exists in Dapper too, then kindly attach your /var/log/messages and reopen the bug. Thanks a lot for helping us improve Ubuntu :)

[Shaun Crampton (fasaxc)]

I'm getting hard lockups (X crashes, no mouse movement, keyboard locked out) with ndiswrapper and a driver for an ACX111 based card (removed the linux driver for the card as it didn't work).

I'm using 2.6.12-10-k7 and have tried rolling my own ndiswrapper from source (using version 1.10) but the same problem manifests.

I've been using the card with no problems at all from gentoo.

[Josef Johansson (josef86)]

using 2.6.15-17-k7 my computer freezes. (dapper flight 5).
I changed back FSB from 220 (20 mhz overclock) to 200 (standard clock). No more lockups. Possible in this case too?

I have a AMD64 3000+ s754.

[Benjamin Prosnitz (aetherane)]

My computer freezes randomly as well in dapper flight 5. P4 2.8 Ghz (prescott) everything clocked normally. Seems to occur ever hour or so. I noticed that I can leave it on the login screen for seemingly forever without the problem occuring, but once I enter gnome it becomes vulnerable to crashing. Kernel is 2.6.15-19-686

[Benjamin Prosnitz (aetherane)]

Crashes are random

[htinn (htinnocent)]

I get a hard crash if I restart my network.

I have a D-Link (DWL-G122) and I use the latest CVS driver for rt2570 (rt2x00.serialmonkey.com).

The workaround is to *stop* the network, unplug/replug the D-Link itself, then *start* the network again.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Hi Stewart, this is still occuring with the latest dapper + updates?

[Josef Johansson (josef86)]

Maybe I should add that,
Crashes occured in console mode. ( while running dpkg-reconfigure -a )
Sometimes it happened exactly when I logged in, in graphic mode.
I was running the latest updates then, and I was using via_velocity as network drivers.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Could you reboot and do a memory check of the RAM in the machine.

There's an option on the Bootloader screen called:

  Ubuntu, memtest86+

and leave it for a few hours. As this appears to be happening when you've tried several other combinations, that would help to rule out some randomness if it doesn't find anything.

[Benjamin Prosnitz (aetherane)]

I ran the memory test for a while, and no errors were found at all. I still have the random freezing on flight 5 with all updates. It seems to have a tendency to freeze when I shut down (if it doesn't before that). Otherwise, it seems very random.

[Stewart Smith (stewart)]

Since is critical machine and was at a conference - upgrading to pre-release wasn't an option.

I started using a cable instead of the wireless and there were no more random crashes. So it was certainly something to do with the wireless driver.

Since 2.6.15 is in dapper, the problem probably isn't there. I'll assess upgrading though.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Stewart, Benjamin, isodude: do you have the same machines? Could you each post details of your machine (eg. the dmidecode data as shown on:

  http://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HotkeyResearch

at the bottom.

Stewart, concentrating on your issue since you started this thread originally; going from ipw2200 to the cable connection has solved this for you. So that's most likely the cause.

Benjamin, isodude: can you file new bugs against 'acpi-support' detailing the crash you see; was it related to suspend/hibernate, what does the crash look like (eg. is it Bug #28236 ?) and putting the name/model of your laptop in the title.

htinn: can you do the same please. You *definately* have different hardware/drivers (rt2570) and could you put the driver name in the new bug report.

Shawn: sounds like you were overclocking (stretching the machine beyond what it is physically capable of) and setting it back to normal has solved it - definately related! :)

[Stewart Smith (stewart)]

Pruned out of dmidecode output:

        System Information
                Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
                Product Name: V6V
                Version: 1.0
Base Board Information
                Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
                Product Name: V6V
                Version: 2.00

               Version: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.13GHz
                Voltage: 3.3 V 2.9 V
                External Clock: 133 MHz
                Max Speed: 2133 MHz

[Benjamin Prosnitz (aetherane)]

SMBIOS 2.3 present.
25 structures occupying 944 bytes.
Table at 0x000F0630.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes.
BIOS Information
        Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
        Version: V2.5
        Release Date: 09/29/2004
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 512 kB
        Characteristics:
                ISA is supported
                PCI is supported
                PNP is supported
                APM is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                BIOS shadowing is allowed
                ESCD support is available
                Boot from CD is supported
                Selectable boot is supported
                BIOS ROM is socketed
                EDD is supported
                5.25"/360 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
                ACPI is supported
                USB legacy is supported
                AGP is supported
                LS-120 boot is supported
                ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
                BIOS boot specification is supported

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes.
System Information
        Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INC.
        Product Name: MS-6728
        Version: 100
        Serial Number: 00000000
        UUID: Not Settable
        Wake-up Type: Modem Ring

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes.
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: MICRO-STAR INC.
        Product Name: MS-6728
        Version: 100
        Serial Number: 00000000

Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 17 bytes.
Chassis Information
        Manufacturer: Uknown Chassis Manufacture
        Type: Desktop
        Lock: Not Present
        Version: Version 1.00
        Serial Number: 123456890
        Asset Tag: 0123ABC
        Boot-up State: Unknown
        Power Supply State: Unknown
        Thermal State: Unknown
        Security Status: Unknown
        OEM Information: 0x00000000

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 32 bytes.
Processor Information
        Socket Designation: FC-478
        Type: Central Processor
        Family: Pentium 4
        Manufacturer: Intel
        ID: 29 0F 0A 08 FF FB EB BF
        Signature: Type 0, Family 2063, Model 162, Stepping 9
        Flags:
                FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
                VME (Virtual mode extension)
                DE (Debugging extension)
                PSE (Page size extension)
                TSC (Time stamp counter)
                MSR (Model specific registers)
                PAE (Physical address extension)
                MCE (Machine check exception)
                CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
                APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
           ...

[Benjamin Prosnitz (aetherane)]

The most recent updates seem to have made it freeze once every hour or two instead of after about 20 minutes into a desktop session.

[Josef Johansson (josef86)]

I'm got kernel panic ( with information ) now, don't know how it relates. This is with -19 kernel.
My lockups where hard ones. Could'nt do nothing, everything died.
It has still occured once in a while, where random though, like once per day, have been doing alot testing around opengl and fglrx drivers.
My system consist of a Radeon 9600XT, AMD 64 3000+ s754 512MB PC3200, Creative PCI128, sata disks and pata disks. The motherboard is a Asus KV80.
I'm going to do my time in the military tomorrow, so my time for testing is running out. Hope you solve this, I'm going back to Breezy now.

[Skrot (romnes)]

I'm experiencing this bug also. I've got a Acer Travelmate 3004TWMi, running kubuntu dapper flight 6 with a self compiled kernel based on linux-source 2.6.15-20.30. I've also compiled ipw2200 from version 1.1.1, using firmware 3.0 and ieee80211-driver version 1.1.12.

The problem has lasted about 2 months now, with different versions of ipw2200 driver, kernel-source, firmware, ieee80211 etc. It [the bug] doesn't seem to be version bound.

Here are some logs and my kernel configuration:

http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~romnes/kubuntu/

kern.log
syslog
messages
dmideocde.log
kernel.conf

Hope they help, though I've been unable to find any valuable information in the log files relevant to the freezes.

The freezes occur almost randomly. Often as soon as I'm connected and I've got DHCP-info. Also, some times it does not freeze at all.

I don't use any form of crypto on my access point.

Please let me know if further information is needed, I'd be happy to oblige. :)

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Lot of crud in this bug report. Can someone confirm it using a clean install of dapper with no externally compiled modules? Not sure why someone would compile ipw2200 1.1.1 with 2.6.15-20.30, since that's exactly what is in that kernel anyway.

Again, I need this tested on a clean system, be it liveCD or freshly installed.

[Benjamin Prosnitz (aetherane)]

I got it after a clean install of dapper flight 5 and I get it still with
the latest kernel and updates.

On 4/7/06, Ben Collins <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Lot of crud in this bug report. Can someone confirm it using a clean
> install of dapper with no externally compiled modules? Not sure why someone
> would compile ipw2200 1.1.1 with 2.6.15-20.30, since that's exactly what
> is in that kernel anyway.
>
> Again, I need this tested on a clean system, be it liveCD or freshly
> installed.
>
> ** Changed in: linux-image-2.6.15-19-686 (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: linux-image-2.6.15-19-686 => linux-source-2.6.15
> --
> ipw2200 repeatedly crashes.
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34870
>

[Aleksander Łukasiewicz (laestrygo)]

I hope it will be fixed for the final release in June. It didn't work properly in Breezy and it doesn't in Dapper.

Output of dmidecode:

# dmidecode 2.7
SMBIOS 2.3 present.
49 structures occupying 2061 bytes.
Table at 0x000F8450.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes.
BIOS Information
 Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
 Version: 1.08
 Release Date: 05/13/2005
 Address: 0xF0000
 Runtime Size: 64 kB
 ROM Size: 512 kB
 Characteristics:
  ISA is supported
  PCI is supported
  PNP is supported
  APM is supported
  BIOS is upgradeable
  BIOS shadowing is allowed
  ESCD support is available
  Boot from CD is supported
  Selectable boot is supported
  BIOS ROM is socketed
  EDD is supported
  5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  3.5"/720 KB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
  8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
  Serial services are supported (int 14h)
  Printer services are supported (int 17h)
  CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
  ACPI is supported
  USB legacy is supported
  AGP is supported
  LS-120 boot is supported
  ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
  BIOS boot specification is supported

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes.
System Information
 Manufacturer: OPTIMUS
 Product Name:
 Version:
 Serial Number:
 UUID: 00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
 Wake-up Type: Power Switch

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes.
Base Board Information
 Manufacturer:
 Product Name:
 Version:
 Serial Number:

Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 17 bytes.
Chassis Information
 Manufacturer:
 Type: Notebook
 Lock: Not Present
 Version:
 Serial Number:
 Asset Tag:
 Boot-up State: Safe
 Power Supply State: Safe
 Thermal State: Safe
 Security Status: None
 OEM Information: 0x00000000

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes.
Processor Information
 Socket Designation: CPU 1
 Type: Central Processor
 Family: Pentium M
 Manufacturer: Intel
 ID: D6 06 00 00 BF FB E9 AF
 Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 13, Stepping 6
 Flags:
  FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
  VME (Virtual mode extension)
  DE (Debugging extension)
  PSE (Page size extension)
  TSC (Time stamp counter)
  MSR (Model specific registers)
  MCE (Machine check exception)
  CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
  APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
  SEP (Fast system call)
  MTRR (Memory type range registers)
  PGE (Page global enable)
  MCA (Machine check architecture)
  CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
  PAT (Page attribute table)
  CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
  DS (Debug store)
  ACPI (ACPI supported)
  MMX (MMX technology supported)
  FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore)
  SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
  SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
  S...

[KeithCu (keithcu)]

I just did a clean install of Flight 6 and it still crashes.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

For clarity please confirm againt 2.6.15-20. Just saying "latest kernel" has no context.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Please try to reproduce the bug on a text console and get a backtrace from the crash: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSystemCrash

[KeithCu (keithcu)]

I am running 2.6.15-20. The error I see is "firmware error detected. Restarting" in my dmesg and then 802.11 doesn't work and so I usually reboot. I don't see a stack trace or anything and I haven't noticed mouse freezes and such because it happens only every few hours but I'll be on the lookout for that and try to grab a dump.

[Ante Karamatić (ivoks)]

In Benjamin's logs I noticed:

Mar 27 09:39:10 amidrine kernel: [4296418.581000] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Mar 27 09:39:10 amidrine kernel: [4296418.581000] end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 64
Mar 27 09:39:10 amidrine kernel: [4296418.581000] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hda, iso_blknum=16, block=16

In Laestrygo's logs there is:

Apr 8 12:16:36 localhost kernel: [4296623.801000] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 9098316
Apr 8 12:16:36 localhost kernel: [4296623.803000] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 9097808
Apr 8 12:16:36 localhost kernel: [4296623.803000] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 9097812

In Skort's logs kernel dies randomly on random errors. He acctually doesn't even use Ubuntu kernel, but his own. You can notice that most of the time when kernel dies, wifi-card is turned off (pw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On)

I doubt this is ipw2200 problem, but something bad related to disks (at least in first two cases). I have ipw2200 and 72h uptime.

[Benjamin Prosnitz (aetherane)]

I have had many freezes after things haven't been written to the message log
for a while, so there aren't really any messages that I can directly relate
to the freezing. Earlier, I was completing a file transfer via ftp when it
froze and I noticed that even after it froze it appeared to be still copying
files from my network drive.

On 4/11/06, Ante Karamatić <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> In Benjamin's logs I noticed:
>
> Mar 27 09:39:10 amidrine kernel: [4296418.581000] ide: failed opcode was:
> unknown
> Mar 27 09:39:10 amidrine kernel: [4296418.581000] end_request: I/O error,
> dev hda, sector 64
> Mar 27 09:39:10 amidrine kernel: [4296418.581000] isofs_fill_super: bread
> failed, dev=hda, iso_blknum=16, block=16
>
> In Laestrygo's logs there is:
>
> Apr 8 12:16:36 localhost kernel: [4296623.801000] end_request: I/O error,
> dev hdc, sector 9098316
> Apr 8 12:16:36 localhost kernel: [4296623.803000] end_request: I/O error,
> dev hdc, sector 9097808
> Apr 8 12:16:36 localhost kernel: [4296623.803000] end_request: I/O error,
> dev hdc, sector 9097812
>
> In Skort's logs kernel dies randomly on random errors. He acctually
> doesn't even use Ubuntu kernel, but his own. You can notice that most of the
> time when kernel dies, wifi-card is turned off (pw2200: Radio Frequency Kill
> Switch is On)
>
> I doubt this is ipw2200 problem, but something bad related to disks (at
> least in first two cases). I have ipw2200 and 72h uptime.
> --
> ipw2200 repeatedly crashes.
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34870
>

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Closing linux-source-2.6.12 task; bug remains open against 2.6.15

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This bug seems to be somewhat conflated; if you are experiencing a crash, please follow the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSystemCrash and attach the resulting trace. This will hopefully show us whether your crashes are at all related.

Benjamin, your logs show DMA errors on your CD-ROM which could be related.

[Skrot (romnes)]

@ante: My computer doesn't freeze untill I acctually enable the wlan card. And I've had 72 hours uptime as well, if it doesn't freeze within the 10 first minutes of the ipw2000 uptime it doesn't freeze at all, atleast for me.
And yes, I've got my own kernel, from linux-source-2.6.15-20.30.

This has to be ipw2200-related, because it never freeze unless wlan is enabled, and as I said, when it crashes it is within the 10 first minutes after enabling wlan.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

I need you to test with the latest dapper kernel (currently 2.6.15-22). Please test the stock kernel, and not a rebuild of linux-source-2.6.15.

[KeithCu (keithcu)]

I can confirm that it still happens with the latest kernel:
------------------------
[4309703.953000] ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.

uname -a
Linux keithcul 2.6.15-23-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 18 17:31:41 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

[Stewart Smith (stewart)]

Since what I was reporting was a hard crash of the machine, and firmware reloading doesn't cause that (annoying, but not catastrophic) and I have been unable to find another wireless network where this happens (as well as Dapper now being out and usable), I recommend this bug report be closed as "can't repeat" and if it is reproducable at some later point, it be re-opened.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

Thanks