Re: system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing

From: Sami Farin
Date: Sat Dec 31 2005 - 12:02:12 EST


On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:48:41PM +0100, Mark v Wolher wrote:
> Sami Farin wrote:
...
> > Can you try how many seconds it takes to get Oops/crash when you start
> > pressing 'v' in xawtv (video capture on/off).
> > For me, not very many.
> >
> > This happens with every 2.6 kernel. And my hardware is OK.
...
> Hi Sami,
>
> That caused also a crash, i kept pressing the v key and within 15
> seconds it crashed, then i saw the crash-info appear in the log and when
> i clicked on mozilla then it crashed too but without crahs info and
> system froze totally.

Now if someone could figure out how to find the bug in bttv.
My opinion/guess is that's where the bug is, not in buggy PCI hardware,
as somebody said several months ago.

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