Okay, I've almost exhausted the possibilities so I turn to the general current-running public. I'm seeing an intermittent hard hang on my Dell Inspiron 5160 laptop. This is not a panic, it's definitely a hard hang, since although I typically run X I've had a firewire console connected for the last couple of days and the hang kills that, as well. The system is rendered entirely unresponsive with the only recourse being a power-cycle. Today I've eliminated both the ath driver and the nvidia driver as possibilities, the latter because I hit the hang a short time ago while running the nv driver instead. The former _might_ still be a suspect, but I've hit the hang while using the bfe ethernet instead of the wireless ath connection. One interesting although perhaps meaningless datapoint is that I usually see it wedge up right when I click some link in Firefox. It's not related to Flash or anything like that that I can see, just when I click a random link. I've attached a (verbose) dmesg.boot file as well as my config, fwiw. If anyone has seen anything like this or can suggest other avenues to explore, I would be very grateful. At least this hasn't been a _complete_ waste of time; I have managed to fix bugs in both the bfe driver and the nvidia driver through the course of my investigation. Neither fix helped _my_ problem, of course, but at least a couple of bugs were found and fixed. (Both of which were potentially very hard-to-find problems under normal conditions, although turning on INVARIANTS and DIAGNOSTIC flushed them right out.) -- Frank Mayhar frank_at_exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/
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