More info and another spew the low speed usb device turned out to be my mouse <sigh> so unplugged the mouse and tried recording with mencoder
as encoding proceeded there was increasing system wait times then the following spew and the expected fatal crash kernel: call trace kernel: <c0166957> drain_array+0x67/0xd0 <c0168118> cache_reap+0xb8/0x1a0 kernel: <c0132702> run_workqueue+0x72/0xf0 <c0168060> cache_reap+0x0/0x140 kernel: <c01332e7> worker_thread+0x177/0x140 <c011bde0> default_wake_function+0x0/0x10 kernel: <c01331d0> worker_thread+0x0/0x140 <c0135f8b> kthread+0xab/0xe0 kernel: <co135ee0> kthread+0x0/0xe0 <c0101005> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 code: 75 00 8d 96 00 00 00 40 c1 ea 0c c1 e2 05 03 15 00 cc 47 c0 8b 02 f6 c4 40 75 7f 8b 4a 1c 8b 44 24 20 8b 11 8b 5c 87 30 8b 41 04 <89> 42 04 89 10 31 d2 2b 71 0c c7 01 00 01 10 00 c7 41 04 00 02 EIP: [free_block+125/256] free_block+0x7d/0x100 ss:esp 0068:dd911efc I've attached the various bits that made it into the logs and the names logs the bits are from . ** Attachment added: "excerpts from syslog, kern.log, messages, etc" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4916025/crash_logs.txt -- Totally fatal system hang when using mencoder to record video from BT878 device https://launchpad.net/bugs/67250 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
