Ubuntu freezes with blinking lock keys

[zorblek]

Ubuntu Intrepid has crashed three times successively on my Dell M1210 laptop. Each time it froze while the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights blinked. It would not respond to any input until a hard reboot. The first time was with a session that had been running for several hours. Deluge was running, but I don't believe it was using much bandwidth. (I don't know if that's relevant, but several people reporting similar bugs have had it happen during periods of high bandwidth use.) The second two crashes happened shortly after startup, while I was attempting to investigate the first crash. During those, Miro was running (it starts automatically), and Deluge may have been as well (I don't recall). I don't have any Internet apps running right now except for Firefox and Pidgin (I killed Miro as soon as it started). I've been using Intrepid for a while now, and this is the first time this has happened. I don't believe I've made any relevant system changes recently, but I couldn't swear to it.

I'll post the log files here. If there's any other info I can give you, feel free to ask. Thanks!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
LsUsb:
 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Package: linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.22
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=2f1c73c2-68b9-40b2-9ad7-0899f0df580b ro single
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-11.22-generic
SourcePackage: linux

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

zorblek: thanks for your report, what you did experience was a kernel panic. In order to debug it we need to find something that triggers the behaviour. According to your explanation it could be caused by a memory leak (all ram exhausted) but it could be anything.

The thing is, as this was reported about a year ago, is still happenning for you?

Can you check with Jaunty?

Thanks in advance

[zorblek (zorblek)]

I have not had this problem in Jaunty. I actually believe I solved it by
reformatting and doing a clean install. I'm not 100% sure. At any rate, it's
no longer an issue for me. Thanks for checking, though!

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Andres Mujica <email address hidden>wrote:

> zorblek: thanks for your report, what you did experience was a kernel
> panic. In order to debug it we need to find something that triggers the
> behaviour. According to your explanation it could be caused by a memory
> leak (all ram exhausted) but it could be anything.
>
> The thing is, as this was reported about a year ago, is still happenning
> for you?
>
> Can you check with Jaunty?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Ubuntu freezes with blinking lock keys
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312262
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>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu Intrepid has crashed three times successively on my Dell M1210
> laptop. Each time it froze while the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights
> blinked. It would not respond to any input until a hard reboot. The first
> time was with a session that had been running for several hours. Deluge was
> running, but I don't believe it was using much bandwidth. (I don't know if
> that's relevant, but several people reporting similar bugs have had it
> happen during periods of high bandwidth use.) The second two crashes
> happened shortly after startup, while I was attempting to investigate the
> first crash. During those, Miro was running (it starts automatically), and
> Deluge may have been as well (I don't recall). I don't have any Internet
> apps running right now except for Firefox and Pidgin (I killed Miro as soon
> as it started). I've been using Intrepid for a while now, and this is the
> first time this has happened. I don't believe I've made any relevant system
> changes recently, but I couldn't swear to it.
>
> I'll post the log files here. If there's any other info I can give you,
> feel free to ask. Thanks!
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> LsUsb:
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Package: linux-image-2.6.27-11-generic 2.6.27-11.22
> ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=2f1c73c2-68b9-40b2-9ad7-0899f0df580b ro single
> ProcEnviron:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-11.22-generic
> SourcePackage: linux
>

[Alex Goretoy (a1g)]

I'm using acer aspire one netbook aoa150 getting kernel panic when using firefox 3.5pre on jaunty. This has happened before on firefox 3.0 as well. I pasted contents from restart to restart of my /var/log/messages on pastebin.com sounds to me to be same as this bug located here [Bug 353766] [NEW] kernel panic when using firefox on Acer Aspire One, my messages are at the link below, thx

http://pastebin.com/f4327674

[Alex Goretoy (a1g)]

note about above statement i post prior. This happens when I was downloading vmware esxi and vmware server at the same time, maybe overload bandwidth for wireless or firefox? This is a default install of jaunty with perfectbuntu script from category5.tv website and thats it. Ibex had the same problem like this for me. Finally got around to posting this for you to look at. thx

[Alex Goretoy (a1g)]

another note: I was able to reproduce this behavior at least 5 times by downloading esxi and server from vmware at the same time. The attached /var/log/messages should give you more info.

[Alex Goretoy (a1g)]

also this happens with 2.6.28-11 and 2.6.28-14 on my acer aspire one jaunty firefox 3.0 and 3.5pre

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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