Kernel panic occurs randomly under normal use on Eee pc 901, Ubuntu 9.10 fully patched
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Bug Description
About once to several times per day of normal use, my Eee pc 901 totally hangs ie. kernel panic. When this happens, I cannot even get into virtual terminals, system does not respond to SysRq magic keys either (ie, I cannot reboot with the SysRq keystrokes either). Only way to shut down is to hold down power button for several seconds.
There is no way to reproduce the bug reliably - it happens both with Compiz on (with greater frequency perhaps, dont know) and without it. Usually I am browsing the web and maybe listening to music on Audacious as the machine hangs - screen freezes, X stops responding (cannot restart X either, SysRq keys dont respond), and sound loops and keeps looping until the powerdown.
I have had similar crashes with Jaunty as well, and was told then to wait until Karmic for this to be probably fixed. It was then thought it might be something relating to the poor Intel video drivers under Jaunty. This happens completelly similarly under Karmic now. My Eee 701, on the other hand, works perfectly without such crashes.
I will attach the logs on the following post.
The latest crash happened at 14.47 local time (the time in the logs).