Lockups with F17 kernel 3.5.0-2 on Lenovo ThinkPad T61P

[Heinz Diehl]

On 08.08.2012, Tim Evans wrote: 

> Getting fairly frequent (couple of times a day) lock ups with the latest F17
> kernel on my ThinkPad T61P.  Couple of times, it was when clicking a link in
> a Thunderbird e-mail; others, the machine was idle, still others, on putting
> the machine to sleep.
 
> No such lockups with 3.4.6-2.

Do you have anything in the logs? Nobody can tell what's the cause
without some more information.

I do not have a TP at all, but no problems here (kernel 3.5.1-rc1 and
3.5.0, vanilla, with some ACPI-patches and own cpufreq stuff).

Btw: m-sysrq could help you in case of lockups.