Re: possible regression in kernel 3.6: system hangs during nightlytape backup

From: Tilman Schmidt
Date: Tue Nov 20 2012 - 10:49:21 EST


On 20.11.2012 01:14, /me wrote:
> For the 4th time now after switching to kernel 3.6, my system became
> unresponsive during the nightly Bacula backup run. It looks as if
> all disk accesses are suddenly blocked [...]
> It never happened with kernel
> 3.5. For comparison went back to kernel 3.5.7 for a week and it
> never happened during that time. Last night I booted 3.6.7 and the
> very next backup caused the hang again. [...]
> I have photos of the remaining dmesg output
> which I'll try to upload somewhere accessible tomorrow.

Screenshots are now up on
http://www.phoenixsoftware.de/~ts/kernel36hang/
along with the .config of the kernel running at the time.

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