2012/12/29 epsilon <epsilo...@t-online.de>

> Hi all,
>
> recently we read a lot of total system freezes. Let me try to
> summarize:
>
> Common in many cases is: The system totally freezes. No keyboard
> interaction possible. No kernel panic. No coredump. Nothing in the
> logs. Network (ICMP, routing) looks up. But no userland action.
>
> Different are the situations: Some users observe this during boot,
> others in X during night, some see a high diskio just before the
> freeze, others see heavy network load. Some systems run in a VM,
> others on real hardware. Sometimes the issue is reproducable at the
> same time during night, in other cases it occurs randomly.
>
> So we have a wide variety of situations, but often the same result:
> Total freeze without any log or coredump.
>
> Let's assume all this cases have someting in common. Than something
> very fundamental is broken.
>
> On the other hand, is it really likely all this cases are different
> bugs?
>
> To all the users: Thanks for all the reports.
>
> To the developers: What is to provide if users did not have anything
> in their logs, no cordeump, nothing. Only a total frozen system? Maybe
> dmesg and config files, right? And a verbal description what happens,
> right?
>
>  - Eps
>
>
Maybe faulty hardware? memory banks?

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Andrés Genovez Tobar / DTIT
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