Nasty machine freeze-up - kernal panic ?
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:14 pm
I've had LMDE istalled for a day or two now, and all seems to be running well. I've only installed a few additional things, but this problem started before installing them (I'll still list what's been installed if it matters though.)
It may or may not have begun after installing the Nvidia drivers.
It began before any updates.
The machine just freezes up, hard. It's completely unresponsive and I have to pull the power and pop the battery out to power it down, to restart. On my laptop display (not the screen) the "caps lock" and "scroll" indicators flash - no idea what that means, if anything. Three times it's happened on return from a screensaver, once while just reading a message boards (no idle time) and twice while rebooting.
I *did* get an error while booting, and took a pic. It says (starting near the end):
Computer: Alienware (Dell) laptop, "M15X" (I can dig up specs if needed)
OS: LMDE, 64
Nvidia drivers: 195.36.31 , and they seem to be working (3D screensavers, World of Warcraft, etc, all running fine)
uname -arv: Linux red 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 18:02:11 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have compiz installed (there by default, yeah?) but nothing is enabled.
And because I actually read the "Read this before you post", post...
my lspci
Where do I begin??
What the heck is "Hardware abstraction layer: hald[ 23.309406] Kernal panic.... "?
Thanks for any help!
-Laura
It may or may not have begun after installing the Nvidia drivers.
It began before any updates.
The machine just freezes up, hard. It's completely unresponsive and I have to pull the power and pop the battery out to power it down, to restart. On my laptop display (not the screen) the "caps lock" and "scroll" indicators flash - no idea what that means, if anything. Three times it's happened on return from a screensaver, once while just reading a message boards (no idle time) and twice while rebooting.
I *did* get an error while booting, and took a pic. It says (starting near the end):
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Starting system message bus: dbus.
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
Starting ACPI services....
Loading cpufreq kernal modules....done (acpi-cpufreq).
Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager
Starting Hardware abstraction layer: hald[ 23.309406] Kernal panic - not syncing: <3>assertion "(read_phy_reg(pi, 0xc0) & 0xc000) == 0" failed: file "wlc_phy_n.c", line 24364
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Computer: Alienware (Dell) laptop, "M15X" (I can dig up specs if needed)
OS: LMDE, 64
Nvidia drivers: 195.36.31 , and they seem to be working (3D screensavers, World of Warcraft, etc, all running fine)
uname -arv: Linux red 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 18:02:11 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have compiz installed (there by default, yeah?) but nothing is enabled.
And because I actually read the "Read this before you post", post...
my lspci
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laura@red ~ $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 12)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce GTX 260M] (rev a2)
07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 01)
09:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
09:07.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
09:07.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
09:07.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
09:07.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
What the heck is "Hardware abstraction layer: hald[ 23.309406] Kernal panic.... "?
Thanks for any help!
-Laura