Re: 2.5.70-mm8: freeze after starting X

[Andrew Morton]

"Bryan O'Sullivan" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> I just upgraded from -mm3 (which I'd been running solidly for over a
> week) to -mm8, and find that the system freezes hard after I start the X
> server.  After X starts, lifetime varies from zero to maybe 20 seconds
> of app launching, then everything locks up.

You might try reverting
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.70/2.5.70-mm8/broken-out/pci-init-ordering-fix.patch

> At this point, the machine is still pingable, but daemons like sshd
> don't respond, and I can't see any logs.  After a reboot back to -mm3,
> there's nothing suspicious in /var/log.

Something oopsed I'd say.  You using radeon?  That seems pretty oopsy
lately.