System Lockup Problem continues *HELP*
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 20 02:18:33 UTC 2010
On 07/19/2010 05:51 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have found that my Dell C610 laptop works fine with a wired connection,
> however, it locksup (sooner or later) with a wireless connection.
>
> I have been trying to figure out what is going on. First I thought it was a
> wireless mouse problem but the wired connection uses the same mouse.
>
> I also thought that when I discovered that swap was not being mounted that could
> be the problem, not the case.
>
> With a wireless connection running the latest lockup happened (which is the
> first time I was able to get any kind of error indication) this morning.
>
> I have been reviewing the logs and have discovered that in /var/log/syslog about
> 0336 this morning there was a message:
>
> Jul 19 03:36:12 nomad kernel: [ 8489.956069 ] BUG: scheduling while atomic:
> irq/11-b43/1009/0x00000101
>
> That was followed by a number of Call Trace entries (lots of lines)
>
> The system was locked up when I checked about 0510.
>
> Research shows a reported bug # 586967 covers the situation. Doing some
> additional searching outlines a potential fix by unloading module 3c59x under
> the same bug.
>
> How do I unload module 3c59x? I have tried placing it in the blacklist in
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and rebooting. After that lsmod showed 3c59x
> still being loaded.
For added reference to help with Jay's problem (we've tried off list):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586967
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/533335
another related:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/560409
<http://www.google.com/search?q=BUG:+scheduling+while+atomic:++irq/11-b43/&hl=en&complete=0&ei=XpVETNT3KI26sQPX-viRDQ&start=10&sa=N>
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