[ltp] irregular crashes on shutdown and hibernate

[Robert Tomsick]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 21:57 +0100, Falk Lindner wrote:
> Hey folks,
> I got myself a thinkpad t500 (2055wvj), along with ubuntu 10.10. and in as i
> mentioned above, the laptop hangs sometimes while shutdown or hibernate.
> There seems to be no obvious cause -- imho. The most recent thing i did, was
> a kernel update to 2.6.35-25.
> Noticing this hangups I tried older kernels (2.6.35-24) and a fairly new one
> (2.6.36), but these glitches remained.
> I was able to find something weird in the messages the last time (hibernate
> hangup):
> 
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> 
> Anybody any idea?

Pardon me for asking, but have you tried running memtest86+?  If not,
I'd suggest that be your first step (since it's an easy way to rule out
memory corruption.)

I ran a T500 on the 2.6.32-series for a long time with no issues
whatsoever.

Cheers,
Rob