Crash without warning

[Victor Engmark]

I'm sorry I haven't the foggiest how this happened. I just arrived this morning, unlocked gnome-screensaver, and started typing in Eclipse SDK with Pydev. While typing, the machine restarted without any warning or glitch beforehand. After logging in again, I got no message about a crash. The machine was not running anything CPU or GPU heavy. It had been running for a few days without problems. I've had some graphics problems before - bug #557128 - but it didn't seem like the same problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: vengmark 2346 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf0520000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1884A'
   Components : 'HDA:11d4184a,103c3035,00100200'
   Controls : 34
   Simple ctrls : 20
Date: Fri Apr 23 09:13:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=4c947735-fdbe-4fcb-a4c5-59937a8c58cd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq dc7900 Convertible Minitower
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic-pae 2.6.31-20.58
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic-pae root=UUID=ccd45ee1-7a0e-4510-bfe7-74a89a401d42 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic-pae
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-20-generic-pae N/A
 linux-firmware 1.26
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic-pae i686
dmi.bios.date: 03/05/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 786G1 v01.16
dmi.board.asset.tag: CZC0013THJ
dmi.board.name: 3032h
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CZC0013THJ
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr786G1v01.16:bd03/05/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaqdc7900ConvertibleMinitower:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn3032h:rvr:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq dc7900 Convertible Minitower
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

Here's the part of /var/log/syslog from the beginning of the file to after the crash (as far as I can tell):

Apr 23 07:40:57 pcgssi10 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="808" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
Apr 23 07:40:58 pcgssi10 anacron[25609]: Job `cron.daily' terminated
Apr 23 07:40:58 pcgssi10 anacron[25609]: Normal exit (1 job run)
Apr 23 08:09:01 pcgssi10 CRON[18516]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm)
Apr 23 08:17:01 pcgssi10 CRON[30839]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Apr 23 08:39:01 pcgssi10 CRON[9012]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -n 200 -r -0 rm)
Apr 23 09:02:15 pcgssi10 pulseaudio[2453]: ratelimit.c: 110 events suppressed
Apr 23 09:09:14 pcgssi10 kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /var/run/rsyslog/kmsg started.
Apr 23 09:09:14 pcgssi10 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="879" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
Apr 23 09:09:14 pcgssi10 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 102
Apr 23 09:09:14 pcgssi10 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
Apr 23 09:09:14 pcgssi10 rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output file '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
Apr 23 09:09:14 pcgssi10 kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi l0b0,

If you could also please 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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[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

I'll be moving to 10.04 as soon as that is released, and this crash was a one-time occurrence, so it's unlikely that I'll have more info on it.

[Victor Engmark (victor-engmark)]

I'll be moving to 10.04 as soon as it's available, and this was a one-time crash, so it's unlikely that I'll have any more information.