Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 02:19:03PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > > So the range of 1-251 seconds  is not entirely random. It's all in
 > > that "32-bit HPET range".
 > 
 > DaveJ, I assume it's too late now, and you don't effectively have any
 > access to the machine any more, but "hpet=disable" or "nohpet" on the
 > command line might be worth trying if you ever see that piece of
 > hardware again.

I can give it a try tomorrow. I'm probably saying goodbye to that
machine on Tuesday, so we'll have 24hrs of testing at least.

 > And for posterity, do you have a dmidecode with motherboard/BIOS
 > information for the problematic machine? And your configuration?

I can grab that in the morning too.

 > And finally, and stupidly, is there any chance that you have anything
 > accessing /dev/hpet?

Not knowingly at least, but who the hell knows what systemd has its
fingers in these days.

	Dave

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