Jonathan Underwood wrote:
Hi,
With FC-6 I have been seeing a lot of soft lockups with all shipped
kernels on my Dell x86_64 SMP machines. For example, inserting a USB
key triggers a soft lockup, as does the VMWare bridged interface. I
realize the latter taints the kernel, but the former happens with
untainted FC-6 kernels (i.e. the vmware stuff not installed let alone
loaded). Anyway, I have reported bugs, detailing the stack trace that
pops up in dmesg, but I get the feeling this isn't that helpful for
debugging.
So, my general question is this: What extra things could I do to provide
more
information about soft lockups?
This is bug 234009:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234009
Everything needed is there, I had only looked at the call traces.
Try removing the SanDisk "value-added" DRM crap. See the latest
bugzilla entry for details.