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

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Geoff Levand wrote:
> 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?

In my case, hangs on reboot were more likely when the system had been running
for a long time (days or weeks of uptime). I can try to catch one of these
and extract more information out of it when I find more time to play with
PS3.

-- 
Best regards,
Siarhei Siamashka
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