I recently got a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) and have installed testing on it and set up pretty much everything as I like it. However I've run into a problem that I haven't seen before which confounds all my attempts to sort it out.
Basically, after a few days of uptime, it seems as though some processes stop working correctly, not starting properly and also refuse to quit or allow themselves to be killed. Specifically terminal windows (xterm, rxvt) open, but do not run a shell, and XEmacs also hangs midway through initialization. There are also numerous qmail-local processes stuck, but which refuse to be killed. Also, any PCMCIA cards I have in the machine work until they are ejected, but nothing happens when they are reinserted. I am still able to log in fine from the console, and the affected processes do not appear to be zombies, so I am at a loss as to what is going on under the hood. I compiled my own kernel (2.4.18) and tried some new options that I'd not used before such as devfs, ext3, alsa and hotplug support so I'm wondering if this could be a kernel problem. Anyone heard of something like this happening before? MBG -- Matthew Guenther He who lives without folly is less wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] than he believes. http://www.attcanada.ca/~mguenthe/
