On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:48:08PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:45:56PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > > > > > for me, 3168. > > > > > maxcpus=1 works for later later kernels (3194, 3201) > > > > > > > > > > For posterity, see also: > > > > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/241249 > > > > > > > > Trying to spot a pattern here is hard. Because so far, it seems to be all Dell > > > > users, but not all Dell core-duo laptops seem to be affected. > > > > My precision M65 for instance is fine. > > > > > > Apparently the problem is not even consistent across models. My > > > Precision M65 is affected. Booting with maxcpus=1 fixes it. > > > > Argh! > > Can people seeing this problem try out kernel-2.6.21-1.3206.fc7 > > from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/fc7/ > > I didn't see that build at the url you gave Ah, I need to teach my mirroring script how to cope with freezes :) > , but I grabbed the 3206 > build from koji. build 3206 boots just fine for me now, while 3194 > continues to hang. Ok, that's good to know. That narrows it down to something in 2.6.21.2 I'm still not entirely sure *which* patch in that update caused the problem, so I'll do a few more builds to try and narrow things down further. Thanks for testing. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
