Package: general Severity: important i am not sure what exacly causes the problem. it maight be cpufreq, or kernel or maybe something else (or CPU Frequency Scalling Monitor applet in GNOME which is rather in doubt).
when enabled "AMD Quiet'n'cool" in BIOS (the CPU frequency scalling) and have installed CPUFreq package, it very often happens that system crashes totally. it happens estimatelly 0.5-3 times per a day (0.5 means once per two days) that my machine freezez (and the only way left is hard reset), or resets suddenly, or my X server crashed (that happen once) and some stack-trace was in console. one moment later machine had 'self-reset', so i couldn't note that stack. i am observing the problem for year or even longer (on few different kernels), but reporting now because i have just discovered that crashes are caused by frequency-scalling. when "AMD Quiet'n'cool" is disabled in BIOS, nothing bad happens to the system, i.e. no crashes are occuring. crashes happen when doing some suddenly actions which need to rise-up cpu-frequency, such as compiling, or starting application that needs much of cpu-resources at a time. when system is just up, but has no any user action, or when watching movie, nothing bad happens. cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
