freecell crashes x while yum is running

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Wed Oct 29 08:16:41 UTC 2008


seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 15:56 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote:
>   
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:28 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> As Red Skeleton was known to say, "I just do them, I don't explain 
>>>> them". I have noticed more than once that x freezes if I am playing 
>>>> freecell while running "sudo yum update" from a gnome terminal. I have 
>>>> not had X freeze in any other scenario. The symptoms of the freeze are:
>>>>
>>>>    1. yum is downloading at the time
>>>>    2. It happens while I am dragging a card - the motion freezesa
>>>>    3. The mouse still moves but none of the rollovers do anything and
>>>>       clicking doesn't have any effect
>>>>    4. The keyboard doesn't have any effect. Not even ctrl-alt-del,
>>>>       ctrl-alt-f2, or ctrl-alt-backspace
>>>>    5. The gnome monitor panel applet freezes
>>>>    6. ssh works. I can log in from another machine
>>>>    7. /sbin/init 3 doesn't do anything
>>>>
>>>> I am running F10 rawhide on a Dell Latitude D620 - integrated Intel 
>>>> graphics chip. 
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> How much memory do you have in the system?
>>>
>>> -sv
>>>   
>>>       
>> One Gig of ram  and at least 6 gig free on vars partition. If it happens 
>> again I check how ram is used.
>>     
>
> and type 'dmesg' and look for OOM or Out-of-Memory in the output.
>
> -sv
>
>   
Sorry I took so long, but the problem had to occur again before I could 
post anything. It should be noted that the system is still running and 
the disk drive is accessible.
No out of memory messages but I do have the following entries, probably 
relevant.
> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
>          cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
> ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
> ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
>          cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x5 (timeout)
> ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
> ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
> ata2: soft resetting link
> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/25
> ata2: EH complete
> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
>          cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
> ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
>          cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          res 51/04:01:01:60:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
> ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
> ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
>          cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>          res 58/00:02:00:12:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
> ata2.00: status: { DRDY DRQ }
> ata2: soft resetting link
> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/25
> ata2: EH complete






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