Description of problem: after upgrading to cauldron I'm experiencing terrible freezes in Mageia4. I've tried to isolate the source of the problem and it basically comes down to my wireless interface. As soon as I turn on my wireless the system freezes completely (sometimes it takes a few seconds/minutes before the freeze happens). I can't even switch to other terminals using alt+ctrl+F2/F3.... I've never seen such a terrible freezes on any linux distro before and I also didn't have this problem in mageia3. Here is my wireless specification: lshw -class network: *-network description: Wireless interface product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 02 serial: 00:1b:77:a8:31:f7 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl3945 driverversion=3.9.4-desktop586-1.mga4 firmware=15.32.2.9 ip=192.168.1.3 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg resources: irq:45 memory:f9fff000-f9ffffff *-network description: Ethernet interface product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: eth0 version: 02 serial: 00:1c:23:8d:65:5a size: 10Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=half latency=64 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Mbit/s resources: irq:17 memory:f9bfe000-f9bfffff egrep -i 'network': 0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) ipconfig -a: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:23:8D:65:5A UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:17 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:77:A8:31:F7 inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:77ff:fea8:31f7/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1600 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1250 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2288135 (2.1 MiB) TX bytes:119944 (117.1 KiB) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Use Mageia cauldron with Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] wireless card. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
nothing relating to installer step
Component: Installer => RPM Packages
Manuel, Thanks for saying the obvious. There was no proper component category for the bug so I chose installer. If you know a better one choose that.
I've been constantly updating my system and after installing the latest updates today the problem seems to have gone now. Thanks.
Nope. false alarm. after a few hours, mageia4 crashed yet again. It's definitely the Intel wireless driver. Please fix this.
Priority: Normal => High
It seems that nobody cares about this. So I grabbed the kernel source (version 3.9.8) from kernel.org and compiled my own kernel. Everything works fine with the new kernel that I compiled and there is no sign of those terrible freezes. I don't know what's wrong with Mageia kernel(3.9.8-desktop586-1.mga4) that causes such terrible crashes.
Assignee: bugsquad => tmbSource RPM: (none) => kernel ?
After upgrading to mageia's new kernel (3.10.3-desktop-1.mga4) the problem seems to have disappeared (well, it's been days that I'm using the new kernel and no sign of freezes). Thanks.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED