On Saturday, December 1, 2012 11:56:37, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Sometimes my GTA04 gets into a state where the long Power key press is
> no longer recognised. I've tried to investigate this, but I can't see
> anything in the codebase that makes a link between a long Power key
> press and showing the shutdown/restart menu. Does anyone know how that
> happens?
>
> (This is running QtMoko git HEAD code, with Qt 4.8, so this problem
> might not affect any releases yet.)
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
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I just discovered a bit more about the state where a long Power key press does
not work. My GTA04 was hot in my pocket even though it should have been
suspended. I looked at it and connected over SSH and found that:
- it was not suspended
- long Power key press did not work
- top showed qpe constantly using around 95% CPU.
Then:
- strace on the qpe PID showed that it was continually reading fd 16, but not
getting any data
- /proc showed that fd16 was /dev/ttyHS3, i.e. the modem.
This is all consistent with other recent occasions when I've noticed high CPU
usage, or that the modem has stopped working, and I think also with two other
UI symptoms:
- scrolling stops being kinetic
- when using the keyboard, the pressed key pops up but doesn't pop down again
until I press the next key.
My guesses:
- the recent kernel fix for invalid serial state notifications unfortunately
isn't quite right, or isn't a complete fix.
- This is also related to recent reports of faster than expected battery
drainage.
Regards,
Neil
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