I have a script that runs: #!/bin/sh sudo /sbin/losetup /dev/loop7 /more/.polymedia sudo /sbin/cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop7 polymedia sudo /bin/mount /dev/mapper/polymedia /more/polymedia This usually works well, but tonight, this made my machine freeze for a minute or so. dmesg shows: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! <c043dac5> softlockup_tick+0x90/0xa1 <c0423d44> update_process_times+0x35/0x57 <c0406134> timer_interrupt+0x60/0x98 <c043db62> handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x4c <c043dc07> __do_IRQ+0x7c/0xd1 <c0405035> do_IRQ+0x63/0x80 ======================= <c0405047> do_IRQ+0x75/0x80 <c04036f2> common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 <c0441b3d> find_get_pages+0x50/0x58 <c04465c6> pagevec_lookup+0x1c/0x22 <c044695f> invalidate_mapping_pages+0xa0/0xb2 <c04629a6> kill_bdev+0xd/0x20 <c0462a2d> set_blocksize+0x74/0x80 <c0462a4a> sb_set_blocksize+0x11/0x34 <e0906846> ext3_fill_super+0x117/0x147c [ext3] <c042e6ff> __mutex_init+0x30/0x49 <c042f6a2> debug_mutex_add_waiter+0x1c/0x2c <c04d7def> snprintf+0x1f/0x22 <c0492fb2> disk_name+0x30/0x88 <c0462174> get_sb_bdev+0xcc/0x114 <c0474902> alloc_vfsmnt+0x97/0xbe <e0905058> ext3_get_sb+0x18/0x1c [ext3] <e090672f> ext3_fill_super+0x0/0x147c [ext3] <c0461f69> do_kern_mount+0x8a/0x12e <c0476075> do_mount+0x6c4/0x71e <c04d4692> _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x22/0x2c <c04751ae> mntput_no_expire+0x11/0x6d <c0469f83> link_path_walk+0xaf/0xb9 <c042f6a2> debug_mutex_add_waiter+0x1c/0x2c <c044b62c> __handle_mm_fault+0x7c5/0x7ed <c0601816> __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x1e7/0x1ef <c0444038> get_page_from_freelist+0x26e/0x3d7 <c04037df> error_code+0x4f/0x54 <c0474d27> copy_mount_options+0x26/0x109 <c0476141> sys_mount+0x72/0xa4 <c0402cb3> syscall_call+0x7/0xb kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. I'm running Fedora Core 5 with kernel 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5. Known bug? /Peter �trand <astrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx