Hi Kelly, Thanks very much for pointing this out :) If you could capture kernel dump of this hang that will be a great starting point of the investigation. Best regards, Okash On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 3:24 PM Kelly Prescott <kprescott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I will start with the disclaimer that I know a little C, but I am by no > means a kernel developer nor any other kind of developer. > I do it for fun or on small projects I need for myself. > > I have noticed that now that ArchLinux has moved to the Linux 5.x series, > my system seems to hang with speakup much more than it ever did before. > I do not get the frequent hangs on my Ubuntu 16,4 and 18.4 systems. > I get them, just not as frequently. > I now have 3 archlinux machines, 2 laptops and one desktop where I can > make the machine hang with in 5 minutes of trying. > I do this by making sure the machine is busy doing something, network > activity, logging etc. Then I opena large file and review the screen with > Speakup making my keystrokes faster and faster until the machine hangs. > It is also interesting that in my desktop machine when I installed a > 4-port network card, the hangs became so bad I had to take it out. > When I ran the machine without speakup, they went away, so It was not the > network card. > > Like I said, I can now reliably produce a hang. > I know I am not qualified to fix it, but I would like to offer my > assistance in providing dumps to assist others in helping find the > problem.' > > I am going to try to get the dumps logged to a serial console and then > saved to files. > With that said, What information do I need to provide to make this > meaningful. > What I would like is some instruction and pointers so I can accurately > help and not just put out useless noise. > > As we move toward taking the kernel out of staging, I think we need to fix > this as it results in a total hang of the machine. > > I am willing to grant machine access, make and send crash information, run > tests, or anything else I can do to help get this resolved. > > If someone will reply with what needs to be done from my side, I would be > happy to get started. > > Thanks. > > -- Kelly Prescott > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
