[Cbe-oss-dev] ps3 kernel lockdep issue?

[Geoff Levand]

On 11/22/2009 01:09 AM, Andrea wrote:
> On Friday 30 October 2009, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> 
>> > > I had some occasional hangs when trying to reboot or shutdown my PS3. I
>> > > suspect it could be caused by some rare race condition. That's why I'm a
>> > > bit suspicious about different things.
>> >
>> > I don't see any way this could be related to problems at shutdown.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the explanations.
>>
>> Hangs happening on reboot is probably really an unrelated issue. But it would
>> be intersting to know if anybody else has ever seen them, to decide whether
>> the problem is worth investigating. Maybe I'm just imagining things after
>> all, or my setup is broken :)
> 
> My 2p are that I have experienced hang ups on shut-down as well.
> I'm running a PS3, latest firmware and latest Fedora 11.
> 
> I normally shutdown via ssh and what I see after a while is that the green light is still on and if
> I switch on TV I see the standard login, but the system is dead.
> I could not find anything suspicious in /var/log/messages.

Is the cursor still blinking on this hang?

What happens if you just boot the system, and without
any interaction with it, press the power button to initiate
a system shutdown?

-Geoff