freeze on Dell Inspiron 700m

[Stephen Lau]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:59:42PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:17 -0800, Stephen Lau wrote:
> > I just installed a stock Fedora Core 3 system on my new Inspiron 700m,
> > and notice that HAL causes the laptop to completely freeze when it
> > runs.
> > 
> 
> Ok, so you mean that the hald process is caught in uninterruptible
> sleep, aka state 'D'? You may check out these Red Hat bug 
> 
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138259
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136255
> 
> Basically, it's bug in the kernel that makes hal hang in these cases.
> 
> > I'd like to try and track this down some more, but have never debugged
> > HAL before.  What's the best way to go about debugging this?
> > 
> 
> What I normally do is that I shut down the running hald process and then
> just run 'hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes' as root.

Hrm...I think it seems like a different bug...both of those bugs say
that just the process hangs, they are still able to kill it and re-run
hald as you noted.

My problem is that hal causes the entire machine to lock-up and
freeze.  i.e.: completely unresponsive, and i have to power it off.

i ran it with hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes and saw it dump a bunch
of output, the last thing i saw was something about looking at
sys/net/eth0 or something.  how can i capture this output?  if i try
to redirect it to a file it won't get sync'd out and written to disk
before the machine freezes, so i don't really get anything i can save.

cheers,
steve

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