compcache locks the system; Was: Swap problems

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 9 17:36:39 UTC 2009


hi,
On Sa, 2009-02-07 at 21:37 +0100, email.listen at googlemail.com wrote:

> 
>     sudo lsmod | grep compcache
> 
> The output will show that compcache, lzo_decompress and lzo_compress modules 
> are loaded.
> 
> The solution is to disable compcache:
> 
>     sudo swapoff -a
>     sudo swapon -a
> 
> You may also unload all modules after you disabled compcache loaded by 
> compcache and compcache itself:
> 
>     sudo rmmod compcache
>     sudo rmmod lzo_decompress
>     sudo rmmod lzo_compress
> 
better edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf, make sure there is no
value set for compcache and run sudo update-initramfs -u 
that will prevent compcache from being used at all ...  
you should also file a bug about the lockup so it can be fixed ...

ciao
	oli
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