Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:06:42 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.kernel.input,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.power-management.general,gmane.linux.acpi.devel,gmane.linux.usb.devel
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* Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 3. When I switch to X (CTRL-ALT-F7), X hangs after drawing a couple of windows
> >    after waiting for some 10 min, I rebooted. no new messages showed 
> >    up in /var/log/messages
> 
> I think this is likely just more of the disk being buggered, but it 
> could again be related to NO_HZ (people report time not advancing, and 
> that would make any X timeout taking forever, and you'd see exactly 
> your behaviour).

Michael - does your 'date' output advance after resume? If not then i'd 
say it's a NO_HZ related problem. If yes then i'd guess it's the SATA 
problem.

	Ingo