[ATrpms-users] alsaconf crashes system

[Axel Thimm]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 10:45:31AM -0700, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote:
> 
> On Jun 17, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:52:29AM -0700, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jun 17, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:24:33AM -0700, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote:
> >>>> weird thing happened this morning. the sound was mysteriously not
> >>>> working, so I run alsaconf. the system completely freezes and I  
> >>>> must
> >>>> hard boot it to get it to come back. i can reproduce this every  
> >>>> time.
> >>>> also reloading alsa from init causes the crash.
> >>>
> >>> What where the changes that caused this? E.g. what did you do this
> >>> morning or yesterday that seized your sound?
> >>>
> >>> rpm -qa --last | grep -E '(16|17) Jun 2006'
> >>>
> >>> should give you a list of new installed packages in the last two  
> >>> days
> >>> if this should be the issue.
> >>
> >> alsa-utils-1.0.10-19.rhfc4.at                 Sat 17 Jun 2006
> >> 06:59:53 AM PDT
> >> alsa-driver-1.0.11-47.rhfc4.at                Sat 17 Jun 2006
> >> 06:58:33 AM PDT
> >> alsa-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-1.0.11-47.rhfc4.at Sat
> >> 17 Jun 2006 06:58:12 AM PDT
> >> lirc-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-0.8.1-
> >> cvs20060325_58.rhfc4.at Sat 17 Jun 2006 06:11:51 AM PDT
> >> ivtv-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-0.8-114.rhfc4.at Sat 17
> >> Jun 2006 06:11:23 AM PDT
> >> video4linux-
> >> kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-20060528-73.rhfc4.at Sat 17
> >> Jun 2006 06:11:20 AM PDT
> >> nvidia-graphics8756-
> >> kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-1.0_8756-72.rhfc4.at Sat 17
> >> Jun 2006 06:10:13 AM PDT
> >> kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2 Sat 17 Jun 2006
> >> 05:05:27 AM PDT
> >> kernel-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2    Sat 17 Jun 2006
> >> 05:05:02 AM PDT
> >
> > Well, it looks like you have been upgrading various parts of your box
> > today for almost two hours including the kernel. So it's not really
> > "sound mysteriously not working". :)
> >
> > I would check the following:
> >
> > o Did you reboot after adding kmdls, to allow them to replace the
> >   running ones?
> > o Does booting back to the previous kernel and kmdls restore sound?
> >
> > kernel and kmdls are designed in such a way that you can always step
> > back to the previous working configuration (unless you have removed
> > the old kernel package).
> 
> 
> it was working when I went to sleep, it was broken when I woke up, so  
> I started tweaking things and upgrading which is what you see above.
> 
> anyway I have rebooted a bunch of times, mostly due to the system  
> lockup. I always leave older kernels on the system for the reasons  
> you outline. I just went back to 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4, which  
> works...later kernels just crash and burn. so I'll stick with this  
> unless there is some way I can troubleshoot the 2115 kernels.

Are these 2.6.16-1.2111_FC4 w/ or w/o cubbi_swsusp2? W/o cubbi is the
stock package, w/ is the package with swsusp2 patches. Although I
don't think the cubbi patches may be an issue, it is still important
to know what broke, 2111->2115 or stock kernel -> cubbi.

Please check whether installing 2.6.16-1.2115_FC4 and assorted kmdls
fix your issue. If yes, it's sumething in the cubbi patches, if not,
it's something in 2111->2115.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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