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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:54:49 +0100
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hardlocks in 8-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20100309085449.GA2577@current.Sisis.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100309081635.GA4161@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <20100308142005.GA2971@current.Sisis.de> <20100309081635.GA4161@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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El día Tuesday, March 09, 2010 a las 07:16:35PM +1100, Peter Jeremy escribió:

> On 2010-Mar-08 15:20:05 +0100, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:
> >from time to time I encounter that the laptop after opening the lid is
> >just locked, i.e. hardlocked and does not even respond on ping from other
> >places; I did tests to see when it crashes, i.e. if it is based on the
> >movement, of WLAN AP re-connect or whatever; I now always first open it, work a
> >while across WLAN and then plug-in the power; the lock occurs only on
> >the plug-in of the power-supply;
> >
> >any idea what to do next for debugging this? thanks

Hello Peter,

Thanks for your reply;

> 
> Firstly, 8-current means you're running a build more than 3 months old.

do be more exactly: it is a 8-CURRENT based on CVS checkout from end of
May 2009;

> Have you considered upgrading?

this is at the moment no option because it is my laptop to do real work
all day; 

> When the lockup occurs, are you in X11 or on a VTY?  If the latter, is
> there anything relevant on the console?  Does the keyboard work at all
> (Caps-lock and/or Ctrl-Alt-ESC)?

When the lock occurs I'm in X11 (KDE 3.5.x); the only key which works is
pressing power-button for some seconds, i.e. full power-off;

> What (if any) power management are you running?  Do you have acpi_throttle
> enabled - if so, you could try disabling it.

Is this to be done in rc.conf or via sysctl? I have nothing set about
acpi_throttle;

> 
> Finally, some more details of your system would be handy.

$ kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   43 0xc0400000 cb20f8   kernel
 2    1 0xc10b3000 1b7b8    snd_hda.ko
 3    2 0xc10cf000 52b18    sound.ko
 4    1 0xc1122000 b2ec     umass.ko
 5    1 0xc112e000 59b0     acpi_video.ko
 6    1 0xc1134000 988964   nvidia.ko
 7    3 0xc1abd000 2e404    linux.ko
 8    1 0xc1aec000 42a4     atapicam.ko
 9    1 0xc1af1000 3cc8     ubsa.ko
10    1 0xc1af5000 11d9c    pwc.ko
11    1 0xc81cd000 8000     linprocfs.ko
12    1 0xc81fa000 37000    ipl.ko

What else would be handy?
Thanks for your reply in any case.

	matthias

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