CPU soft lockup during boot if ipw3945 kill switch is on

Bug #63418 reported by Alex Onic
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic

When booting the system in about 70% of the cases the system locks up during the boot up splash screen.

If I switch to text console (F1) before the lockup occures it will show the following:
[17179605.640000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

Crash is caused by ipw394 kill switch turned on (ipw3945 disabled).

The lockup occured definitely with 2.6.17-8 and later. 2.6.17-7 seems to come up fine.

The computer is a Samsung Notebook R65 with Intel Pentium M Core Duo T2300.

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Alex Onic (aonic) wrote :

In _most of_ the lockup cases system hangs immediately after the message
 * Checking file systems...

It also sometimes happened to hang earlier than that.

Please let me know if I can do some checks for you on my system.

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Dr D J Clark (djc-online) wrote :

I have this problem with IBM/Lenovo R60e

[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.17-10-generic (root@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060920 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4
.1.1-13ubuntu3)) #2 SMP Tue Sep 26 16:53:47 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-10.24-generic)

it round about
[17179601.544000] EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
[17179601.632000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179602.232000] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
[17179602.232000] tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
[17179602.488000] ipw3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[17179602.488000] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
[17179603.828000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179603.828000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179603.828000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179611.368000] ReiserFS: sda11: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
[17179613.364000] ReiserFS: sda11: using ordered data mode
[17179613.388000] ReiserFS: sda11: journal params: device sda11, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len
1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[17179613.388000] ReiserFS: sda11: checking transaction log (sda11)

exact messages were
[17179608.46400] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

and, on a second occasion

[1719608.464000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

powered off and restarted, booted ok.

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Dr D J Clark (djc-online) wrote :

I have just installed most recent upgrades and problem again:
[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.17-10-generic (root@rothera) (gcc version 4.1.2 200
60928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Mon Oct 2 13:48:24 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu
 2.6.17-10.26-generic)

* Activating swap...
* Checking root file system...
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
/dev/sda2: clean, 133049/651520 files, 545842/1301265 blocks

* checking file systems...
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Replaying journal..
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sda11' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
[17179611.636000] BUG: soft lockup detected in CPU#0!

power off, reboot
I have just installed most recent upgrades and problem again:
[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.17-10-generic (root@rothera) (gcc version 4.1.2 200
60928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Mon Oct 2 13:48:24 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu
 2.6.17-10.26-generic)

* Activating swap...
* Checking root file system...
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
/dev/sda2: Superblock last write time is in future. FIXED
/dev/sda2: clean, 133049/651520 files, 545842/1301265 blocks

* checking file systems...
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Replaying journal..
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sda11' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
[17179611.636000] BUG: soft lockup detected in CPU#0!

switch off, reboot
* checking file systems...
fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Replaying journal..
[17179602.168000] ipw3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sda11' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree..finished

continues to boot ok

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Timothy (timothyparez) wrote :

I have the same problem with a Intel Core Duo 2x2.16Ghz
This bug has been reported many times in different forms but nobody seems to want to mark it as confirmed

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Alex Onic (aonic) wrote :

These are some subjective notices:
After an earlier update the lockup seemed to occur for only 10% of the bootups. With one of the last updates it got worse again.

According to /var/log/aptitude linux-image and -headers were updated on:
Di, Okt 10 2006 10:48:15 +0200
Mi, Okt 11 2006 17:51:45 +0200
Fr, Okt 13 2006 09:50:34 +0200

restricted-modules were updated only on 10th.

After one of these updates I believe this issue really got severe.

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Alex Onic (aonic) wrote :

Ok one more thought before I believe this bug stays unnoticed.

The lockup occurs in different points of bootup, but always during or after an fsck. This agrees with your observation Dr D J Clark.

During: Usually during a forced fs check
After: Meaning the next checkpoint for bootup is already being displayed, but then the lockup occurs

The asynchronous behavior makes me guess it has something to do with upstart.
upstart was last updated on Mi, Okt 11 2006 00:05:09 +0200, which is in the range when I think the lockup probability changed.

fsck or something like e2fs* was never updated since start of the logfile.

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Mikael Nilsson (mini) wrote :

Yes, the timing seems right for me too regarding upstart... it started happening soon after I switched to upstart.

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mon (javiermon-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Hi

I have this same error:

[609.985601] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

On shutdown.

This computer was running dapper flawlessly. I installed beta 2 of edgy amd64 because the dist-upgrade process failed and this error ocurred while rebooting after the installation process (i.e. booting with the live cd) and now after the installation.

I'm going to try and update and then I'll try and report more info.

thanks

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Mikael Nilsson (mini) wrote :

Please note that bug 60053 is about soft lockups on halt/reboot. This bug is about booting. Are they necessarily the same?

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Alex Onic (aonic) wrote :

I think I can confirm that the issue has something to do with the WLAN kill switch (see bug 60053).

With WLAN deactivated (kill switch on) the system came up 1 time out of 5 tries.
With WLAN activated it came up every time out of 3 tries.

It is ipw3945

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote :

Bugs aren't the same. I didn't notice this one. This bug is about ipw3945, while bug 60053 is about usplash.

Unmarking as a duplicate.

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote :

Importance medium cause bug affects (all or some) users or widely used ipw3945.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
importance: Undecided → Medium
description: updated
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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote :

Maybe it shoud be "high" since it's a regression from dapper and earlier edgy releases?

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Dr D J Clark (djc-online) wrote :

It certainly seems to be related to the wireless switch
I have been booting daily with wireless switch on two weeks and the problem has not occured. Today I booted with the Wireless switched off and had ¨soft lockup on CPU0¨. Rebooted, still with Wireless of and the boot was ok. I notice that just before the Reiser journal processing, which is where the lockup occurs there was with the sucessful boot a message ¨Wireless Kill Switch on" this does not seem to appear on occasions when the lockup occurs.

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paniq (paniq) wrote :

can also reproduce the bug, happened 2 times, booted a different kernel then. i have indeed an ipw and a kill switch - i suppose having the kill switch disabled (lights on) will make the problem go away.

just wanted to let you know.

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grenness (christopher-grenness) wrote :

I installed Edgy three days ago, and have since probably booted my Lenovo X60s 20 times without any problems.
Today I dualbooted into Win XP and checked for BIOS updates.
I installed the 1.10 BIOS, rebooted, and have now tried four times to boot into Edgy with the same result each time:

[17179611.784000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

During the BIOS upgrade, the windows driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless was updated as well, but I reckon this only affects Windows, not Ubuntu or the BIOS. ...or?

My most important question: how can I at least boot into Ubuntu again - can I do something in the boot loader menu (adding commands) to perform a "safe boot" or something?

Thanks,
Christopher

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paniq (paniq) wrote :

chris, just make sure that your killswitch is off (wlan _on_), on boot. it comes into effect after grub.

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Mikael Nilsson (mini) wrote :

I no longer see this problem.

I can now boot fine even with killswitch on (Dell XPS M1710)

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Mikael Nilsson (mini) wrote :

Sigh - now experiencing again. Somehow it's not completely random... I can boot everytime for some time, then for a while it never works. Very strange. How come this is not getting worked on? This should be a showstopper for edgy.

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paniq (paniq) wrote :

as initially pointed out, there is a percentage of chance that it locks up.

i guess it is not being regarded as important because it affects only a "rare" piece of hardware.

then again, wait for 2.6.18.

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Lex Berger (lexberger) wrote :

I can confirm this bug.

I am using a Samsung R65 with a Core Duo T2300E 1.66 GHz .

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Lex Berger (lexberger) wrote :
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Juan V. Guerrero (Coredumped) (juan.guerrero) wrote :

Same here, I'm using an HP/Compaq nx6320, however It does happen the most when I turn on the machine on battery, almost 90% porcent of the time It'll fail to boot.

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soc (simon-ochsenreither) wrote :

with the new feisty kernel even my desktop system gets this error now! before i got it only on my dell inspiron 9400!

- desktop works with 2.6.17, but not with 2.6.19
- laptop doesn't work with 2.6.17, i couldn't try 2.6.19, because i can't even get to the cl because of this bug!

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote : Re: [Bug 63418] Re: CPU soft lockup during bootup

U Uto, 31. 10. 2006., u 14:40 +0000, soc je napisao/la:

> with the new feisty kernel even my desktop system gets this error now!
> before i got it only on my dell inspiron 9400!

Hm... I can report that with feisty kernel booting works even with kill
switch on.

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Mikael Nilsson (mini) wrote :

tis 2006-10-31 klockan 16:57 +0000 skrev Ante Karamatić:
> Hm... I can report that with feisty kernel booting works even with kill
> switch on.

There is no linux-restricted modules for the 2.6.19 kernel yet, so I
don't think you have the ipw3945 driver loaded at all!

--
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote :

U Uto, 31. 10. 2006., u 17:20 +0000, Mikael Nilsson je napisao/la:

> There is no linux-restricted modules for the 2.6.19 kernel yet, so I
> don't think you have the ipw3945 driver loaded at all!

I do. I don't have userspace daemon.

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grenness (christopher-grenness) wrote : Re: CPU soft lockup during bootup

Actually, I have now found out that my problem was caused by the built-in SD card reader. The
[17179611.784000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
message (and freeze) appears during boot-up if an SD card is present in the SD card reader.

-Christopher

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Lex Berger (lexberger) wrote :

The bug occurs to me even if there is *no* SD card present in the built-in card reader (Ricoh R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro). It does not make a difference.

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Bartisimo (no-mice-king) wrote :

Hello,
I have the same bug on a Dell D620. Sometimes it happens even when the kill switch is off(wireless on).

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Dr D J Clark (djc-online) wrote :

noting the report of bug 70722

I recently had a strange problem with my wireless connection which affected both edgy and dapper. The wireless connection appeared to be ok at boot but then mysteriously disconnected after a minute or so. After several attempts to restart networking and reboots of both Dapper and Edgy I booted to my WinXP partition to check it that was working. It was not, but after booting back to Dapper wireless resumed normal operation and has not been a problem (at least in Dapper) since.

Could this bug be a problem with the firmware binary that is loaded for the wireless driver?

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soc (simon-ochsenreither) wrote :

I have this problem on al Dell Inspiron 9400, too (edgy and feisty kernel).
My solution was to boot the kernel 2.6.17-9, which works or to deactivate WiFi (ipw3945) in the bios.

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Oliver (lobohacks) wrote :

Same problem here on a dell 640m/E1405
Occurs when I use the kill switch to turn off ipw3945 wlan module.

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shrd (shrd) wrote :

I think this bug is more important than medium.
For million and million of laptop owners with the intel pro wireless (wifi), many of them kill wifi (to reduce power battery for example)
After installing edgy, many of them have seen their system hangs during boot. (include me...)
How many of them have reboot and reboot their system with the same result (no error displayed on the screen, system hangs)?
How many of them have thought to use the recovery mode after all these attempts? (many I think)
How many of them have next writen in google : 'ubuntu "soft lockup detected on CPU"' to be forward to this page or the duplicate bug page ?
And finally how many of them finally abort to install edgy on their system cause to this bug, and cause they just do not think to power on the wifi before the next boot or just after the boot (and before edgy load the driver)?

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Mikael Nilsson (mini) wrote :

Bug 64125 seems to be a duplicate.

From that report, here's an upstream bug report:

http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1096

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Sascha Herres (saschaherres) wrote :

I can confirm that this behaviour seems to be caused by ipw394 in conjunction with the kill switch:

I have a non-modified Dell Latitude D820 and with no cables attached (even power) and no media inserted the systems freezes during booting up as long as WiFi is disabled (kill switch set to ON). When I enable WiFi (kill switch OFF) the system boots again. I tested this behaviour several times now.

The freeze happens during starting of "LVM" or running fsck with the message "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!". Sometimes I also had the "Superblock last write time is in future. FIXED" message on my screen just before the freeze.

I am willing to deliever detailed information if needed.

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote :

All ipw3945 users are hit by this bug. It causes total loss of functionality with a hardware that's very common on laptops.

Thus marking it as High.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
importance: Medium → High
Changed in bugzilla:
status: Unknown → In Progress
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Mikael Nilsson (mini) wrote :

There's an innocent-looking patch to try here:

http://bughost.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=947

Any volonteers?

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote : Re: [Bug 63418] Re: CPU soft lockup during bootup

U Sri, 08. 11. 2006., u 10:53 +0000, Mikael Nilsson je napisao/la:

> Any volonteers?

Building source as I we speek, so I'll be able to test it an hour.

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shrd (shrd) wrote : Re: CPU soft lockup during bootup

This patch gets out of the "while", so i think it will work but the question is what is the thermal sensor on wifi ?
and is it bad that it is not working fine? I have not much problem with the wifi, few disconnection but sometimes, strange behavior.
the time loss on boot with this patch (when the thermal sensor not working) : 10 microseconds x 1000 (udelay=microdelay no?) = 10 ms => it is not a real problem, but no better solution? if all drivers are programed like that, we can understand why the time to boot is so long.
And we will have the message 'thermal sensor seems to not work" on boot now (in place of the bug) but it is a better choice lol

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
assignee: nobody → ben-collins
Mikael Nilsson (mini)
Changed in bugzilla:
status: Unconfirmed → Unknown
Changed in bugzilla:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
Changed in linux-source-2.6.19:
importance: Undecided → High
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Kyle McMartin (kyle)
Changed in linux-source-2.6.19:
assignee: nobody → kyle
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Andrew Fenn (andrewfenn)
Changed in linux-source-2.6.19:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in linux-source-2.6.19:
status: Confirmed → Rejected
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
assignee: nobody → ben-collins
importance: Undecided → High
Mikael Nilsson (mini)
Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
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brokencrystal.com (admin-brokencrystal) wrote :

I had this problem with my Dell Inspiron 1501 and finally realized that it happens when a SD card is in the built in slot in the notebook. It boots Windows fine, but Ubuntu locks every time with CPU Soft Lockup During Boot. My terminal output is attached...

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

Thanks for you comment brokencrystal. In the terminal output you've attached I can't see any mention of the ipw3945 driver. This bug is about that driver. If you don't use the ipw3945 driver then your bug is a different one. If that's the case please make a seperate bug report for your problems with bootup. From what you've said my guess would be that the computer is trying to boot from the SD card - but that discussion is for your bug report when it's ready. Thanks.

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sebastian-s (sebastian-s) wrote :

hi all,

I had the same problem with my Toshiba P100 (PSPA3A-05S00P) Notebook
running the Kubuntu Dapper was no problem with WLAN kill switch on.
running Edgy with kernel 2.6.17-11-generic (CD image from http://cdimage.geole.info/) failed with the mentioned lockup.

Cheers Sebastian

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

Kernel build 2.6.20-10-generic in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) has fixed this bug for me.

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Kristian Rink (kawazu) wrote :

@Duncan: Are you sure? By this morning when I tried to install 2.6.20-10-generic, I had to see that linux-modules-restricted for right this kernel wasn't yet available, and both the ipw3945 will not work without it and (as far as I remember my machine) the error doesn't show up without having linux-modules-restricted installed...

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

@Kristin: I'm sure for my machine (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HP_Pavilion_DV8220EA) because after your question I restarted five times in a row with the killswitch on. You're right that there was a time delay between the 2.6.20-10-generic and the matching linux-modules-restricted package. I noticed that too when I had to go and find a LAN cable to get back online. That was solved for me when I updated again a few hours later.

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Didier L (l-farquaad) wrote : Re: [Bug 63418] Re: CPU soft lockup during boot if ipw3945 kill switch is on

2007/3/13, Duncan Lithgow <email address hidden>:
> Kernel build 2.6.20-10-generic in Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) has fixed
> this bug for me.
>
Same here, I have restarted 3 times on batteries with kill switch on
since that upgrade and the bug did not occur.

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holber (mikael-holber) wrote :

Same problem on HP Pavilion dv2115ea with Intel core duo T2050. Also have some problems coming back from ram-sleep. This too gives soft lock on cpu0. I'm running 2.6.20-9-generic on Feisty Fawn.

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brokencrystal.com (admin-brokencrystal) wrote :

"Thanks for you comment brokencrystal. In the terminal output you've attached I can't see any mention of the ipw3945 driver. This bug is about that driver. If you don't use the ipw3945 driver then your bug is a different one. If that's the case please make a seperate bug report for your problems with bootup. From what you've said my guess would be that the computer is trying to boot from the SD card - but that discussion is for your bug report when it's ready. Thanks."

The reason that I left the reply about the SD card is because I originally (Scroll all the way up to the top of this bug report and you will see it) thought this was my bug, but later realized what was happening. I wanted to follow up so you were not wasting your time trying to figure this out on my machine when that was not really my problem to begin with.

I posted a bug report here for the SD card problem...

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/90560

Maybe you can go there and help figure out the problem. That would be nice.

The laptop is not trying to boot to the SD card. This is not BIOS related as it boots half way through Ubuntu and then hangs with the CPU 0 Soft Lock or whatever it's called. Also, Vista boots fine from the DVD and the HD, but Ubuntu hangs if a card is in the built-in slot, which makes me believe the problem is in Ubuntu or the Linux Kernel itself.

Thanks

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Paolo Loberto (mrloba) wrote :

Problem seems to be solved on my HP Pavilion DV5245ea with 2.6.20-11-generic. I made varoius reebot and power on/off with kill switch on and no lockup occurred.

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

Is this working for these people who have Feisty?
* Paolo Loberto
* Cyprien
* Andrew Henry
.. and others

Why is this bug listed under three different kernels in one bug report. Shouldn't it be split up? It looks like this bug is solved in 2.6.20 but let's give the others a few days to respond...

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Kristian Rink (kawazu) wrote :

fix confirmed for recent feisty kernels > 2.6.20-10 on my machine. good work everyone! :)

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Paolo Loberto (mrloba) wrote :

fix confirmed for 2.6.20-12-generic on xubuntu feisty.
thanks everyone.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Andrew (adhenry) wrote : Re: [Bug 63418] Re: CPU soft lockup during boot if ipw3945 kill switch is on

Working fine for me now in 2.6.20-12.

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Jørgen Syvertsen (jorgg) wrote :

I use 2.6.17-11-generic, where can I get the ipw3945.ko file for my kernel. I have the same problem on my Asus W5F using Edgy. I cant start with wlan/bluetooth turned off, and neither suspend correctly even though wlan/bluetooth turn on. Can I use the same ipw3945.ko file as posted for 2.6.17-10 on my 2.6.17-11?

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blankman (blankman) wrote :

This is also till a problem in the latest 2.6.20-13 build of FF. I have an HP nc6400 with ipw3945 module running. I got into this problem because the hibernate will not work, and it "has" to turn the wireless kill switch on ... so ... just giving some data :)

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haenschen (weises-daniel) wrote : @Jørgen Syversen

ipw3945.ko seems to work with 2.6.17-11-generic too.

It works fine on my Dell Inspiron 6400.

(Don`t forget backup! So you can test it risklessly)

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mnemonic (sven-schomaker-gmx) wrote :

Ok, just in case it helps anyone.

I had a really ugly soft lockup on my desktop. It is running the Feisty release version. The install failed
while booting the live disk, as the xserver was unable to start. So I booted the live disk in Safe Graphics Mode
and everything worked fine using the standard xorg VESA display driver. Now that I've got a nice Radeon X1600
(RV530LE) PCIe card, I installed the fglrx out of the Feisty apt repository. Everything just standard. But it
totally wrecked the machine. Using the fglrx driver I got a soft lockup at starting arbitrary programms.
Sometimes even while loading the gnome session itself. To check if it had anything to do with compiz and
the nice wobbling windows (that couldn't even be activated) I removed compiz and used the standard
metacity window manager. Nothing changed. I still had lockups everytime I started an X session. So finally
I suspected the darn fglrx and removed it from the system, reenabling the vesa driver and - rataplan - no
lockups ever since:-) Yeehaw! Got my system back. So if anyone is experiencing this really annoying bug,
CHECK IF YOU GOT THE FGLRX INSTALLED AND ACTIVATED. IF SO, REMOVE IT AND TRY AGAIN. Anyhow I also
noticed it is related to some other drivers as well, but this time it was the fglrx for sure, so give it a try without
it.

good luck to all of you having a lockup on your machine

greetings sven

Output of lspci -v, lsmod, uname -a, cat /proc/cpuinfo; cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf attached in the text file

Note: The output of lsmod and xorg.conf are made without the fglrx driver. The way it would look like with
the fglrx driver loaded only differs in the vesa driver line in xorg.conf and one line of lsmod output.

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balak (balak) wrote :

Hi All,

I am seeing the same issue on ubuntu Feisty Fawn on my averatec 2150. It has a wireless on/off button and if I turn it off by mistake, the computer doesn't boot. This laptop does not have the intel wireless card - it is a "RaLink Mini PCI wireless built in IEEE 802.11b/g" according to this page: http://www.tux.org/~gkwms/av2150.htm
Should I file a separate bug (since the wireless card is different ?) or will it be contained in the same bug

I am running kernel 2.6.17 (amd64).

Once this started, I am having trouble booting up even with the wireless on.

thanks!

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Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) wrote :

I noticed today that I can boot with the kill switch on... is this fixed in Feisty?

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Jon Anderson - yes, this should be fixed. At the top of the bug report you can see the status for the 2.6.20 kernel is "Fix Released".

balak - you should file a separate bug as it is about different hardware.

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Mark Baas (mark-baas123) wrote :

Im using Feisty kernel 2.6.20-16 and also had the message, after disabling the ipw3945 module the problem disappears. So maybe the bug should be reopened.
I am using a Packard Bell laptop MZ 075 in case that would be necessary to report. Please tell me which output i should supply you with.

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Mark Baas (mark-baas123) wrote :

Well now im not totally sure anymore, please anyone tell me how i can trace back this error. I cannot see when it is loading something, and under failsafe i have no problems.

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Paul (kztyrvlq) wrote :

Good Day All . . .

I had this also today (if it is related to this).

on boot - Checking File Systems - fsck 1.40-WIP (14 Nov-2006) was doing a forced check on one of my backup hard drives when the system locked up with

   [71:492208] Bug: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

Without knowing what to tell you I will say that as of today I have all the system updates installed on Kubuntu 7.04.

Let me know what else you want.

Thank You.

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koma (koen-koma) wrote : same problem with VIA CN700 chipset

soft lock detected on CPU#0

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

koma - It would be helpful to know what kernel you received that error message with.

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koma (koen-koma) wrote :

Feisty with all latest updates, 2.6.20-16-generic
it started after doing all latest updates.
Reinstalled the machine now and did all updates but problem does not reproduce. But then, it is not yet configured as the previous install.

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Mark Fraser (launchpad-mfraz) wrote :

I had the same thing happen today after doing a reboot. Got as far as

Checking File Systems - fsck 1.40-WIP (14 Nov-2006) was doing a forced check on one of my backup hard drives when the system locked up with

[71:492208] Bug: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

This is with Feisty fully updated and 2.6.20-16-generic kernel.

Only managed to get the system back up after removing a wireless network card - a CWP-854.

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JaddJadd (triplezone3-gmail-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I also get the same error, sometimes but not always, on boot. My computer also freezes up every once in a while. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty, fully updated, my kernel is 2.6.20-16-generic. I have a wireless card (ATI RT61) which I have managed to get working through editing /etc/network/interfaces.

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Pradeep (pradeep+-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

The bug status says fix released, but I get this message every time I boot:

"PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of the bridge 0000:00:06.0"

I have a standard 7.10 32-bit installation.
uname -a:
Linux gutsy 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Let me know if you need more information.

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Pradeep (pradeep+-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

kern.log

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Mikael Nilsson (mini) wrote : Re: [Bug 63418] Re: CPU soft lockup during boot if ipw3945 kill switch is on

Thus bug is NOT about the "CPU soft lockup" message. That message is
just a symptom of another bug.

This specific bug is only about the case where this is caused by the
Intel wireless 3945 driver. If you do not have that card, or if your
symptoms do not involve different behavior depending on killswitch
on/off status (i.e. wireless off/on), then, please submit another bug
detailing your issue.

The issue with the intel 3945 driver does indeed seem to be fixed.

/Mikael

lör 2007-10-20 klockan 17:44 +0000 skrev Pradeep Varadarajan:
> The bug status says fix released, but I get this message every time I
> boot:
>
> "PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of the bridge 0000:00:06.0"
>
> I have a standard 7.10 32-bit installation.
> uname -a:
> Linux gutsy 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
>
> Let me know if you need more information.
>
> ** Attachment added: "lspci"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10083264/lspci
>
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Pradeep (pradeep+-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I have the intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AGN card. Would it be related?

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Mikael Nilsson (mini) wrote :

lör 2007-10-20 klockan 21:02 +0000 skrev Pradeep Varadarajan:
> I have the intel PRO/Wireless 4965 AGN card. Would it be related?

Might be, it's the same driver.

Can you please describe your issue in detail, and try booting with and
without the wireless switch on?

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Changed in linux-source-2.6.22:
status: New → Invalid
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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

If you are still experiencing issues, please test with the latest Hardy Alpha release. General information regarding the release can also be found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . The Hardy Heron Alpha series contains an updated version of the kernel which is actively being developed. You can download and try the new Hardy Heron Alpha release from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/ . You should be able to then test the new kernel via the LiveCD. If you can, please verify if this bug still exists. If the issue still exists, please open a new bug report against the 'linux' package. Be sure to include the debugging information described at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies . Thanks.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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JMO Mandia (jmomandia) wrote : Re: [Bug 63418] Re: CPU soft lockup during boot if ipw3945 kill switch is on

Solved this problem some time back. Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> wrote:

> If you are still experiencing issues, please test with the latest Hardy
> Alpha release. General information regarding the release can also be
> found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . The Hardy Heron Alpha
> series contains an updated version of the kernel which is actively being
> developed. You can download and try the new Hardy Heron Alpha release
> from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/ . You should be able to
> then test the new kernel via the LiveCD. If you can, please verify if
> this bug still exists. If the issue still exists, please open a new bug
> report against the 'linux' package. Be sure to include the debugging
> information described at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies
> . Thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
>
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> CPU soft lockup during boot if ipw3945 kill switch is on
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63418
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vicnov (dreamland-skib2) wrote :

Seems this problem is fixed in Ubuntu 7.10 - I was able to boot with WiFi turned off.

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JMO Mandia (jmomandia) wrote :

That's right.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:24 PM, vicnov <email address hidden> wrote:

> Seems this problem is fixed in Ubuntu 7.10 - I was able to boot with
> WiFi turned off.
>
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> CPU soft lockup during boot if ipw3945 kill switch is on
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63418
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Joseph Piché (josephpiche) wrote :

Even though this bug is marked as fixed, I just encountered it on a fresh install of 8.04.1 when I chose to hibernate the laptop. I have an atheros wireless card (b43 module), but I haven't installed any restricted software nor have I installed the binary firmware yet.

The exact message is:

[ ####.######] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s! [ipolldevd:5141]

Instead of hibernating, this message scrolls indefinitely.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Joseph, please open a new bug report since this is about a very different situation than your bug.

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