{"id":1238,"date":"2014-11-29T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2014-11-29T17:55:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T17:55:33","slug":"kernel-3-18-and-3-17-beware-of-lockups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Kernel 3.18 &#8211; and 3.17 &#8211; Beware of Lockups.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A problem that still plagued the <strong>3.18-rc<\/strong> series of kernel releases now seems to affect <strong>3.17<\/strong> as well..<\/p>\n<p>I have had two complete system hangs with 3.17.3 and 3.17.4 on my main system in the last two weeks, and thought at first that these were caused by KDE and\/or NVIDIA hangs, but then found that I could not <em><strong>ssh<\/strong><\/em> into the system remotely to kill the affected processes..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In true <em>IT Crowd<\/em> mode, I actually had to &#8216;try turning it off and on again&#8217;..<\/p>\n<p>More details here:\u00a0 <a title=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1411.1\/05475.html\" href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1411.1\/05475.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1411.1\/05475.html<\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1411.3\/02866.html\" href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1411.3\/02866.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1411.3\/02866.html<\/a> and <a title=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1411.3\/03741.html\" href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1411.3\/03741.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1411.3\/03741.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I get another lockup, I&#8217;ll have to seriously think about reverting to 3.16.7 on my main system, for the time being..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 November 29, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A problem that still plagued the 3.18-rc series of kernel releases now seems to affect 3.17 as well.. I have had two complete system hangs with 3.17.3 and 3.17.4 on my main system in the last two weeks, and thought at first that these were caused by KDE and\/or NVIDIA hangs, but then found that I could <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1238\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,15,19,20],"tags":[107,184,916,954,955,448],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crash-and-burn","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-bug","tag-hang","tag-kernel-3-17","tag-kernel-3-18","tag-lockup","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}