On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:09:09PM +0200, Marcus Crafter wrote: > Hi All, > > Hope all is well. > > After having 64 lovely days of uptime on our E250 with 2.4.10 > non-smp, I installed the 2.4.10-smp package. Unfortunately after 10 > minutes it crashed while compiling the pine source code. > > The crash wasn't too pretty either, no oops, no messages, simply > a total lock-up of the system completely that would only respond to > power-off, power-on. > > This has happened several times before with 2.4.x kernels in smp mode, > so, in these situations where there is no information, how can I try > to find out what went wrong ? > > What would you all recommend I do, so that I can obtain some more > information next time I boot up 2.4.10-smp ? (or what may I have > overlooked in my diagnosis too ?)
I saw the same thing on our dual Ultra60. I would suggest emailing the [email protected] mailing list, and explain to them you are using a Debian kernel (cat /proc/version output will help). I'd like to see this resolved aswell. It happened to me when copying many gigs across two SCSI disks. Ben -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'

