Re: 2.1.41 lockup

Tim Wright (timw@aracnet.com)
Fri, 30 May 1997 00:49:45 -0700

This sounds pretty similar to the hangs I get with diald.
When you're running X, you can't see the oops, and of course it's locked badly
enough to prevent you switching back to the original vt.

If I can't get sysklogd-1.3-3 to build (does not deal with modutils-2.1.34), I
think I might hook up a serial console and see what can be gleaned...

Oh, this was 2.1.40, no SMP, diald with kerneld demand-loading most stuff.
About to try again with 2.1.42 etc.

t

>
> I don't know if this is related, but starting about the 2.1.39 kernel
> and getting worse now that I jumped to 2.1.41, my system (P-166, 40MB RAM,
> 3c509 card, running X11/MetroX, RedHat 4.1, Netscape 3.01) will lockup
> hard and require the power switch. This appears to be similar to the
> network/graphics/mouse bug that I think someone reported earlier. There
> is nothing noted in the logs (/var/log/messages). The system did hang
> hard once when it was in text mode, but there was no core dump or "screen
> of death" to get information from. Anyone else experiencing this or have
> words of wisdom?
>
> Dan
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