� ���, 12.04.2002, � 21:30, Alan �������: > This is pretty nasty. > > This is using the stock kernel from Mandrake 8.2. I expect that similar > problems exist in the cooker version. > > What happens is that after some indeterminate time period, the system > does not allow you to start new processes. Already existing processes > run, but new processes will not start and you cannot restart new > processes. Shutting down cannot happen because you can't start the > shutdown script! > > After looking through the logs, I think I have found the cause of the > problem. It appears that devfs is dying. It kills enough of the kernel > to not work correctly, but not enough of the kernel to choke all > together. (Enough to be frustrating.) It looks like the lethal > combination is a remountable ide-scsi device, but that is only a guess > at this point. >
What device? Is it supermounted read-write? -andrej
