Bug#490071: Same hangs with Radeon driver

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 18:11 +0200, Juergen Kosel wrote:
> 
> > I was able to get another stack trace similar to the one I've included
> > above the 7 august. It probably hanged a last time the 8, but I'm not
> > completely sure as I've not taken note, then nothing, no more hangs in
> > the last week.
> > 
> >> I have the impression, that the hang occurs, when an application opens a
> >> new window. E.g. during the first attempt to mail the lines above, the
> >> hang occured:
> >> I saw the new window of icedove/enigmail in the workspace-preview
> >> tasklet but not on the workspace, the mouse was moveable for a few
> >> seconds and stopped then.
> > 
> > I experienced the hangs after few minutes from boot, usually when
> > interacting with the windows, but at least one time it hanged on the
> > GDM screen and in a session when I was doing nothing.
> 
> Same for me. But when it seems idle, it is still possible that some
> application tries to pop up a window.
> 
> So we have the same symptons. And therefore there is hope that this is
> the same bug.

I'm afraid not, as I've written before:

The common symptoms are generic symptoms of a GPU lockup, which can be
caused by any number of things.

As it only happens for Andrea after a cold boot, his problem is likely
hardware (probably temperature) related.

Please don't make me write this again next month. ;)


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