Re: Watchdog catches hard CPU lock in 4.8.11

2017-04-06 Thread iwillallways forget1
Solved by upgrading to kernel 3.14.4. The hangs in booting the D830 (in an unknown driver after hald starts) and the D505 (much earlier in the boot process, maybe in USB HID even though no HID device is attached) were solved by booting 3.14.4 instead of 4.8.11. > This is on a Dell Latitude D830 w

Watchdog catches hard CPU lock in 4.8.11

2017-04-04 Thread iwillallways forget1
This is on a Dell Latitude D830 with 4GB of RAM. I am booting kernel 4.8.11 from a live Linux distribution in a USB stick. The CPU is a Core 2 Duo T7100 capable of 64-bit kernels but this live Linux kernel is 32-bit. The hard drive has Windows 7 and is not involved in this live Linux system. A