On Tuesday 03 April 2007, David Wilson wrote: > do you know if there's a way of picking up what caused the deadlock ? > I've looked through /var/log/messages but there's no mention of anything > with regards to the lockup.
Well I trimmed too much and do not have reference to your hardware any longer, but it seems to me that it was an SMP setup, No? There is currently a huge thread on the VMware Forum about freezes on Core 2 Duo machines. One of the technically competent VMware programmers (Petr) suggests its due to a horribly broken hpet timer routine used by Linux. Read thru the thread http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=77895&tstart=0 Try booting with the kernel parameter: hpet=disable It did not solve the core 2 duo problem (at least not for me), but it didn't introduce any problems either, so since you are locking up and rebooting you should have a chance to try it. Personally I have never had this freeze/lockup outside of Vmware, so I think Petr is looking at a kernel problem when the problem is in Vmware. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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