On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:13:50 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > James wrote: > > I'm having problems with what seems to be lm_sensors and the kernel > > having an argument in fedora! Instead of re-writing the content of my > > posts to fedora forum and bugzilla I will post the links here if that is > > ok? If anyone could help me resolve this issue I'd appreciate it! > > lm_sensors isnt vital for my system but it is handy! > > > > System: > > Fedora 7, (Linux JamesFedora 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 13:47:21 > > EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux) Is there no newer kernel available? Upstream stable kernel is at 2.6.22.9 by now. > > Original questions on: > > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=871271#post871271 > > > > Reported to bugzilla about lm_sensors but then moved as explained... > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=306801 > > > > Can I provide any more information to help the problem? > > I've temporarily disabled lm_sensors to try to prevent filesystem damage > > while im work on an important document, in a week or so I can continue > > testing it. > > Indeed there is no need to type your Fedora report again, but next time please > copy and paste it for reader convenience (I've done that for you now): > > --- > > Description of problem: > System freezes completely. Scanning logs only turns up kernel null-pointer bugs > that appear to be linked in to the sensors files....see my post > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=871271#post871271 > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): > lm_sensors-2.10.4-1.fc7 > > How reproducible: > Random, but a couple of times per day. Causes file system damage when the system > has locked up and needs a hard reset. > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1.Impossible to tell, however usually doing something fairly intensive when it > occurs, but never in the same package. Always listening to music over and NFS > shared mount at the time. > 2. > 3. > > Actual results: > - > > Expected results: > - > > Additional info: > I'm not sure if this is an lm_sensors fault, but it seems that the last sys file > used every time is the hardware monitor file: > /devices/platform/w83627hf.656/.... This can be explained easily if you have an application repeatedly polling the temperature values: the last read file will always be the same, but that doesn't mean that it has anything to do with the crash. ksensors is such an application. As I stated in bugzilla already, the backtraces in your forum post do not point at a hwmon driver problem, nor to ACPI. The few hwmon vs. ACPI issues we've seen lately had completely different symptoms. The backtraces seem to point to networking and/or filesystem issues. So for now I need to be convinced (with additional testing) that the w83627hf driver has anything to do with the crashes. I would be grateful if users could stop blaming hwmon and ACPI for being the cause of all bugs that happen in the kernel ;) -- Jean Delvare
