Fedora 13 ksmserver crashes when I disconnecting ppp

n03x3c · 06-22-2010, 02:08 AM

Hello everyone,

I'm using BSNL(India) EVDO service. I got ZTE dialer for Fedora and it works fine. But it has started causing error which was not seen when I installed system freshly. It's just been a week and whenever I disconnect ppp interface, xmessage window open and I see error message.

Quote:

Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.

And kernel also has started crashing sometime. It shows something about usbserial module. Here it is.

Code:

WARNING: at drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c:410 serial_unthrottle+0x4a/0x64 [usbserial]()
Hardware name:         
Modules linked in: ppp_async crc_ccitt ppp_generic slhc fuse ses enclosure usb_storage vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 uinput snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 iTCO_vendor_support snd_seq snd_seq_device option snd_pcm snd_timer snd ppdev usb_wwan soundcore parport_pc usbserial serio_raw r8169 microcode parport mii snd_page_alloc joydev i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core video output [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Pid: 2564, comm: App Not tainted 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.PAE #1
Call Trace:
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Any idea how to deal with this?

unSpawn · 06-30-2010, 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by n03x3c

I got ZTE dialer for Fedora and it works fine. But it has started causing error (..) kernel also has started crashing sometime. It shows something about usbserial module.

Best check 'dmesg' output and log lines (more is better) from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/messages from around the time of the crash for clues. Try shutting down the network only when you are logged out of your DE session or shut down or reboot the machine. If you made backups see if restoring any Xorg/KDE system configuration defaults works. Same for personal configuration changes. If you have upgraded Xorg or KDE components see if the previous package version keeps KDE from crashing. Check if the Fedora bug tracker lists any ksmserver problems and if they are related. If you run F13 you can also open a ticket.