Fresh install of Karmic locks up hard when using browser and listening to music

[David Huggins-Daines]

I recently re-installed Karmic on a new disk. Since then I have had at least one hard lockup per day. By "hard lockup" I mean a complete lockup that leaves no trace in /var/log/kern.log, and does not respond to any Alt+SysRq combinations.

The only thing that I can think of is that this *always* happens when I am listening to music and using Firefox at the same time. Usually when scrolling a web page or doing some other action with the mouse.

I don't really know how to get more information about this, sorry. At first I thought that adding "noapic" to the kernel command-line would help, since it cured my earlier lockup problems, but no such luck.

If this continues I might try installing Jaunty or Intrepid to see if they have the same problem.

Resuming from hibernation also doesn't work anymore, but that's an issue for another bug I guess...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC2: dhuggins 1698 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: dhuggins 1698 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: dhuggins 1698 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'V8237'/'VIA 8237 with ALC655 at 0xd800, irq 15'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC655 rev 0'
   Components : 'AC97a:414c4760'
   Controls : 48
   Simple ctrls : 29
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'default'/'Generic USB Audio Device at usb-0000:00:10.4-4.1, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB0d8c:000e'
   Controls : 7
   Simple ctrls : 3
Card2.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:2 'U0x46d0x8ad'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x8ad at usb-0000:00:10.4-4.2, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB046d:08ad'
   Controls : 3
   Simple ctrls : 2
Date: Wed Jan 13 17:51:06 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=9c4e1a01-0ef5-4f17-8ae2-e02c69ff03a6
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: ECS K8T890-A
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-17-generic 2.6.31-17.54
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic root=UUID=83111403-7e21-44db-944c-5875e549e0ca ro noapic quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-17-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.25
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1792): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1792): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1879): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1896): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
dmi.bios.date: 09/28/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080011
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: K8T890-A
dmi.board.vendor: ECS
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0123ABC
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: ECS
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080011:bd09/28/2005:svnECS:pnK8T890-A:pvr1.0:rvnECS:rnK8T890-A:rvr1.0:cvnECS:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: K8T890-A
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ECS

[David Huggins-Daines (dhuggins)]

looks a lot like this problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8342771

[David Huggins-Daines (dhuggins)]

This bug, and a variety of other stability related issues, seem to be fixed in Lucid. And, specifically, updating to the Lucid kernel 2.6.32-10 packages also fixes them in Karmic for me.

Note that I still have stability issues when using 2.6.32 mainline from the PPA.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi David,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 507243

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[David Huggins-Daines (dhuggins)]

Hi - This was also a hardware issue...