addl info: F20: message from syslogd and soft lockup/kernel bug

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:17:40 -0500 Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been having this issue sometimes (not always but quite
> frequently) upon wakeup from hibernate for the past few days (on a
> newly installed notebook) which is a Dell Precision M3800.
> 
> I get the following message on my consoles:
> 
> Message from syslogd at ....
> kernel:BUG: soft lockup -  CPU#1  stuck for 22s!
> 
> What is the problem? Is the problem with the laptop or the kernel?
> 
> I am using kernel-3.16.2-201.fc20.x86_64 on Fedora 20.
> 
> The laptop has 12GB memory and 16GB swap.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that pretty much **nothing** works at this
stage. Even if I bring up an editor (vi), the actual editor does not
come up. Only a hard reboot allows me to proceed.

Please let me know if more information is needed.

> Any suggestions?
> 
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan
> 
> 
> 
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