--- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have upgraded a Pentium-1 PC from 5 to 6-Stable,
which went smoothly.
Now I'm running 6 with GENERIC kernel, and I want
to compile a new kernel. When I start a new kernel
compilation, this process *always* freezes the PC
(no crash) when reaching
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:52:42PM -0800, Rob wrote:
--- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have upgraded a Pentium-1 PC from 5 to 6-Stable,
which went smoothly.
Now I'm running 6 with GENERIC kernel, and I want
to compile a new kernel. When I start a new kernel
compilation,
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:52:42PM -0800, Rob wrote:
Problem kind of solved:
As this PC has only 32 MB Ram, I add a swapfile.
However, when I compile the new kernel without the
swapfile, all goes well.
Since the freeze is very
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:08:27PM -0800, Rob wrote:
I left it overnight twice for performing this
'kernel linking' stage. In both cases the machine
remained dead.
Without the swapfile, this 'kernel linking' stage
completes in just about less than a minute.
So I think it's not my
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:08:27PM -0800, Rob wrote:
I left it overnight twice for performing this
'kernel linking' stage. In both cases the machine
remained dead.
Without the swapfile, this 'kernel linking' stage
completes in just about
On Mon, 2005-Nov-14 22:38:59 -0800, Rob wrote:
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since you can compile a kernel without it, add DDB,
WITNESS and INVARIANTS support, then trigger the
deadlock with the swapfile, break to DDB and
examine the state of the machine. See the chapter
on
