Bug 16000

Summary: Temporary freezes, acpi does not work
Product: Other Reporter: Manuel Iglesias (glesialo)
Component: OtherAssignee: other_other
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: high    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.32-22-generic 64 bits Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: kern.log May 20, 2010 after a bad system freeze.
strace 'umount -l' log file: strace.reference
strace 'umount -l' log file: strace.21513

Description Manuel Iglesias 2010-05-19 09:19:50 UTC
System (new computer)
  Motherboard: Asus P7P55D LE
    BIOS updated: P7P55D-LE-ASUS-1408 (Same problems with original version)
  CPU: Intel Core i5 661 3.33Ghz
  4 Gb Ram
  Graphics card: Asus Gforce GT 220, 1Gb
  2* SATA Hd Western Digital Caviar Green 2 Terabytes
  OS: Ubuntu10.04 2.6.32-22-generic kernel 64 bits (Same problems with kernel 2.6.31)
  Desktop: Gnome

Problems (only occasionally)
  Temporary freezes:
    Opening applications
    Closing applications
    Opening application's dialogs (specially opening/saving documents)
    Opening and saving (gedit)
    Refreshing nautilus
    Audio playing stops temporarily
  Disk operations seem to take a long time specially 'umount'
  Sometimes shutdown takes 10..15 minutes apparently waiting for 'umount'
  Freezes can be produced by copying big files from an encryped Fs (mounted loop)
    The slowdown of the system seems to be exponential,
    the longer it takes to copy the more the system slows down,
    the more the system slows down the longer it takes to copy... etc

Checked:
  Memory checked: Ok
  All cpus (4: 2 cores + hyperthreading) have low loads (10..20%) when problems appear.
    temperature (sensors) low: 32°C
  Changed some settings in BIOS without any improvement
    Drives set to AHCI or IDE
    Intel SpeedStep (CPU speed controlled by OS) enabled or disabled
  Hard disks are Ok:
    Tested them with palimpsest
      / disk always shows a choppy benchmark graph (Have not found any documentation on palimpsest :-( )
    Same problem booting from both disks (both have Linux)
  Problems happen with both free and non-free nvidia drivers
  No error entries in logs except for blocked process warnings (not always tracker-indexer, sometimes umount):
    INFO: task tracker-indexer:1878 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
    "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
    .........
    Call Trace:
    .........
  acpi does not seem to be functional
    acpi -V
      Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 0
      Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 0
      Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 0
      Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 0
    acpidump >/tmp/table.txt
      Wrong checksum for OEMB!
Comment 1 Manuel Iglesias 2010-05-20 07:38:12 UTC
Today there was a particularly bad freeze (It usually happens soon after booting when anacron runs /etc/cron.daily). The system is still misbehaving as I write this but in the previous 10 minutes it was almost completely unresponsive. I could barely run 'ls' and 'top' in terminals. Cpu load was very low. I could also check temperatures:
          Motherboard  : 24.00°C
          Main Cpu     : 30.00°C
          Graphics Cpu : 28.00°C
          Hd /dev/sda  : 27.00°C
          Hd /dev/sdb  : 27.00°C
This time I got some kernel messages that include attached.
Any help heartily welcome! Thanks in advance.
Comment 2 Manuel Iglesias 2010-05-20 07:42:00 UTC
Created attachment 26451 [details]
kern.log May 20, 2010 after a bad system freeze.

I had to wait a long time until the attachment/browser dialog window opened :-(
Comment 3 Manuel Iglesias 2010-05-27 10:14:34 UTC
I have checked 'umount -l' with strace:

a) invoked from a gnome Linux terminal:
  strace -r -t -T -o strace.reference umount -l /mnt/EmergencyLinuxStore
    umount took about 12 seconds (strace.reference attached):
      0.000024 umount("/mnt/EmergencyLinuxStore", MNT_DETACH) = 0 <11.912094>

b) invoked from a cron job in conditions which induce freezes:
    Same line as above included in a shell script (log file: strace.21513)
    umount took about 512 seconds!! (strace.21513 attached):
      0.000024 umount("/mnt/EmergencyLinuxStore", MNT_DETACH) = 0 <511.296337>
Comment 4 Manuel Iglesias 2010-05-27 10:16:42 UTC
Created attachment 26557 [details]
strace 'umount -l' log file: strace.reference
Comment 5 Manuel Iglesias 2010-05-27 10:17:41 UTC
Created attachment 26558 [details]
strace 'umount -l' log file: strace.21513
Comment 6 Manuel Iglesias 2010-06-15 16:23:53 UTC
Please close this bug as I have created a new one:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16219

Best regards
Comment 7 Manuel Iglesias 2010-06-30 10:36:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16219 ***