Comment 28 for bug 1137817

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rsoika (ralph-soika) wrote : Re: [ivb] System freeze after high memory usage

My system is still freezing. I am working with 3.9.0-rc4 and using kernel option i915.reset=0.
The system is rebooting after 10 minutes (in most cases). But maybe I have now some new interesting information:

I wrote a stupid script added into my crontab. The script is telling me every 3 minutes that everything is ok. I want to check if the system can log anything during the freeze.
Now I have had a freeze at 11:17. The system reboots at 11:27.
This is the syslog: You can see that my cronjob did not run at 11:15. The last entry was 11:09 and not 11:15 as expected.
What are the jobs "anacron" and "cracklib" for? Can that be an issue?

Apr 1 11:00:01 ralphs-laptop CRON[3649]: (rsoika) CMD (/home/rsoika/Tools/freeze_monitor.sh)
Apr 1 11:00:01 ralphs-laptop logger: hello ralph it is 11:00:01 and I am still alive :-)
Apr 1 11:03:01 ralphs-laptop CRON[3987]: (rsoika) CMD (/home/rsoika/Tools/freeze_monitor.sh)
Apr 1 11:03:01 ralphs-laptop logger: hello ralph it is 11:03:01 and I am still alive :-)
Apr 1 11:04:54 ralphs-laptop kernel: [ 3691.000385] [Firmware Bug]: battery: (dis)charge rate invalid.
Apr 1 11:04:54 ralphs-laptop anacron[4060]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2013-04-01
Apr 1 11:04:54 ralphs-laptop anacron[4060]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 5 min.
Apr 1 11:04:54 ralphs-laptop anacron[4060]: Will run job `cron.weekly' in 10 min.
Apr 1 11:04:54 ralphs-laptop anacron[4060]: Jobs will be executed sequentially
Apr 1 11:06:01 ralphs-laptop CRON[4171]: (rsoika) CMD (/home/rsoika/Tools/freeze_monitor.sh)
Apr 1 11:06:01 ralphs-laptop logger: hello ralph it is 11:06:01 and I am still alive :-)
Apr 1 11:07:19 ralphs-laptop kernel: [ 3835.699618] CPU0: Package power limit notification (total events = 1)
Apr 1 11:07:19 ralphs-laptop kernel: [ 3835.699622] CPU2: Package power limit notification (total events = 1)
Apr 1 11:07:19 ralphs-laptop kernel: [ 3835.699626] CPU1: Package power limit notification (total events = 1)
Apr 1 11:07:19 ralphs-laptop kernel: [ 3835.699628] CPU3: Package power limit notification (total events = 1)
Apr 1 11:07:19 ralphs-laptop kernel: [ 3835.705797] CPU2: Package power limit normal
Apr 1 11:07:19 ralphs-laptop kernel: [ 3835.705799] CPU0: Package power limit normal
Apr 1 11:07:19 ralphs-laptop kernel: [ 3835.705820] CPU3: Package power limit normal
Apr 1 11:07:19 ralphs-laptop kernel: [ 3835.705821] CPU1: Package power limit normal
Apr 1 11:09:01 ralphs-laptop CRON[4383]: (rsoika) CMD (/home/rsoika/Tools/freeze_monitor.sh)
Apr 1 11:09:01 ralphs-laptop logger: hello ralph it is 11:09:01 and I am still alive :-)
Apr 1 11:09:54 ralphs-laptop anacron[4060]: Job `cron.daily' started
Apr 1 11:09:54 ralphs-laptop anacron[4405]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2013-04-01
Apr 1 11:10:12 ralphs-laptop cracklib: no dictionary update necessary.