F11-for-XO1.5 Release 10.1.1 Release Candidate 2

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 17.06.2010, at 11:23, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> 
> On 15.06.2010, at 16:47, Paul Fox wrote:
> 
>> bert wrote:
>>> On 14.06.2010, at 20:57, Paul Fox wrote:
>>> 
>>>> bert wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 14.06.2010, at 03:47, James Cameron wrote:
>>>>>>> However, after letting the machine sit idle for a while (even just
>>>>>>> after booting, still in the Sugar home screen), the whole machine
>>>>>>> froze. Power LED was still on. Had to power-cycle. Does not happen all
>>>>>>> the time, but twice already. Maybe it's my machine (one of the first
>>>>>>> C-test ones)?
>> 
>> your board is a B2.  ("OLPC board revision D1" -- confusing, i
>> know.) so you'll need to keep power management off to keep your
>> wlan alive in any case.
>> 
>> your symptoms are definitely odd, though.
>> 
>> can i assume you weren't having similar problems with previous
>> releases?  it might be worth reinstalling whatever you were
>> running before -- do you know what that was?
> 
> Well I didn't update in quite a while. Might have been from last year actually.
> 
>> there's one more technique for getting "last gasp" information in
>> the case of a crash when you don't have serial.  switch to a VT,
>> and enter "echo 9 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk" to enable full console
>> logging.  let the machine die -- if it's a kernel panic or oops you
>> should get a stack backtrace on the VT.  the bad news is that you'll
>> only get the tail end of the backtrace, because the screen is small
>> relative to the amount of data.
>> 
>> paul
> 
> Strange. Haven't been able to reproduce now for two days ...
> 
> - Bert -

And even stranger, now that I did not enable the printk it happened again. It was sleeping, I touched the pad, power led came on, but screen backlight did not, and it does not respond to keys or touch anymore. Also, it does not go back to sleep according to the power led, so it indeed is frozen I'd say.  Mysterious.

- Bert -