Re: Clue on 2.0.33 crashes

Camm Maguire (camm@enhanced.com)
23 Feb 1998 10:10:45 -0500

Greetings, and thanks for your work on xntpd! I think my message
started this thread. Briefly, xntpd *works just fine here* under
2.0.33, except for when a modem poll to the NIST time server is made
*and* the xntpd daemon is run with -d flags. Then, the console
freezes, and all network connections to the machine cease to function,
but routed connections through the machine continue. The kernel gets
stuck in a loop.

Without the -d flags, xntpd dies at the same point with signal 1
(HANGUP). So 1) there seems to be some problem with xntpd in
accessing NIST and the proper handling of its time data, and 2) there
seems to be a problem in the kernel such that when a process attached
to the console get signal 1, the machine hangs. This is entirely
reproducible.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

-- 
Camm Maguire			     			camm@enhanced.com
==========================================================================
"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."  --  Baha'u'llah


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu