ACPI-related freezes

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

On Sun 11 Sep 2011 at 20:13:10 +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> On Sun 11 Sep 2011 at 17:27:47 +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> > Interesting. I am now running a kernel (not userland) cvs updated last
> > night, and my ACPI-related freezes seem to be gone (at least they have
> > not occurred in over 5 hours of uptime).
> 
> I spoke too soon, unfortunately. I ventured to make a remote backup
> (pulling another machine's data with rsync over ssh, to a local
> usb-attached disk) and it froze after doing a significant part of it.
> Still, this is a much longer uptime than I've seen previously with these
> mysterious freezes.

Just as a status update: it still happens with yesterday's kernel, just
less often. Out of 4 boots, 1 froze (within a few minutes of uptime).
The other 3 boots lasted for many hours until I did a reboot myself.

-Olaf.
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