Bug 15447

Summary: Laptop AMILO PRO V2055 freeze (APIC?)
Product: ACPI Reporter: Zsombor KALO (zsombibi)
Component: BIOSAssignee: Zhang Rui (rui.zhang)
Status: CLOSED INVALID    
Severity: normal CC: lenb, rui.zhang
Priority: P1    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.32-2-686 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: acpidump-ascii.txt dmesg.txt lshw.txt lsmod.txt lspci.txt
kernel config
dmesg with kopts: maxcpus=1 idle=halt

Description Zsombor KALO 2010-03-05 08:50:13 UTC
Created attachment 25363 [details]
acpidump-ascii.txt dmesg.txt  lshw.txt lsmod.txt lspci.txt

On FS AMILO PRO V2055, kernel freezes rarely, about 5-15 minutes after booting. Google gives lots of search results about this problem but none of them solved this issue.
I checked my BIOS version and it is the most recent.
Trying kernel with parms 'noacpi', 'acpi=off', 'pci=noacpi', 'noapic', 'nolapic' did not help becouse this way Debian did not find the HDD.
When kernel freezes, there is no kernel panic nor other evaluable error message.

Using an other Amilo Pro V2055 notebook, the error also occurs so I don't think it is a hardware error.

My kernel is installed from the original Debian SID dist pool:

$ uname -a
Linux zsbook 2.6.32-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 04:08:42 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Comment 1 Zsombor KALO 2010-03-06 10:31:30 UTC
Created attachment 25379 [details]
kernel config
Comment 2 Zsombor KALO 2010-03-06 11:57:32 UTC
Not a bug. Sorry.

CPU was overheated.
Comment 3 Zsombor KALO 2010-03-06 17:20:52 UTC
After some hours testing, without CPU overheat the error still persists.
Comment 4 Zhang Rui 2010-03-10 02:49:15 UTC
please try boot option
1. maxcpus=1
2. idle=halt
to see if the problem still exists.

BTW: why do you think this is an ACPI problem? :p
Comment 5 Zsombor KALO 2010-03-15 14:02:06 UTC
Thank you, with these boot options I have more time after booting, the first freeze appears about in 1-2 hours.

I guess ACPI or PCI/APIC problem becouse after I visited Google results, everyone who has similar problem (sudden freeze on BIOS-buggy FS Amilo Pro notebook, without kernel panic etc) solved it with disabling ACPI and/or pci apic.

So I'm not sure this problem is ACPI-related, I just always ask Google before I address a question or report a bug :)

Meantime, I've compiled a preemtive kernel without io-apic, I give a try with that.
Comment 6 Zhang Rui 2010-03-17 08:23:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Thank you, with these boot options I have more time after booting, the first
> freeze appears about in 1-2 hours.
> 
please attach the dmesg output both with these boot options.
Comment 7 Zsombor KALO 2010-03-17 17:08:14 UTC
Created attachment 25569 [details]
dmesg with kopts: maxcpus=1 idle=halt
Comment 8 Zsombor KALO 2010-03-20 15:28:53 UTC
Definetly not a kernel bug. 

With driver debugging, in commandline mode, I noticed serious hardware errors. It looks like every controller (USB, SATA, all other peripheals) disconnects when this 'freeze' occurs.
The most annoying with this is that the other Amilo Pro V2055 notebook produces the same symptom, however this IS a hardware bug.
So conclusion is this notebook series should not be used.

Thank you for the effort and sorry for bothering with false-alarm.