Re: Reiser4 lockups (no oops)

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 11:20:35 EST


On Thu, Oct 20 2005, Chris Boot wrote:
> Quoting Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx>:
>
> >On Wed, Oct 19 2005, Chris Boot wrote:
> >>I don't get any OOPSes or BUGs or anything, not on my screen nor on my
> >>serial console (although I'm not sure I have this working right--I only
> >>seem to get kernel boot messages). Machine replies to pings but I can't
> >
> >Easy fix for that is probably to kill klogd on the machine. Test with eg
> >loading/unloading of loop, that prints a message when it loads.
>
> I'd love to, but the machine is locked solid and won't turn on the
> display or switch TTYs or anything. Anyway, I've applied
> reiser4-fix-livelock.patch from ftp.namesys.org and so far so good
> (over night).

I mean _before_ the crash, to make sure the messages get out :-)

--
Jens Axboe

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