Re: [BUG] 2.4.x system Freezes

2001-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
> able to get into kdb from a serial console (an then lost the log - murphy can > be a real PITA). I figure a ps, bt and bta should be enough to point out > the problem task? Its there anything else I should do (sr t maybe?)? That should give you most of the info - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: [BUG] 2.4.x system Freezes

2001-03-03 Thread Ed Tomlinson
On Friday 02 March 2001 19:20, you wrote: > > Should an X crash really freeze my box like a block of ice? Would be > > nice if linux could just detect an X crash an recover... Is this too > > much to ask from PC harware? > > X pokes hardware, so X is kind of a device driver in part. One slip and

Re: [BUG] 2.4.x system Freezes

2001-03-02 Thread kees
Hi, I experience simular problems with 2.2.19(pre6) on a SMP machine at work. Random lockups, tried removing SCSI adapter, sound card, replaced network card all didn't help. My last action was replacing the videocard. Since then I havn't had any lockups, before they came at least once a day b

[BUG] 2.4.x system Freezes

2001-03-01 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Hi, A couple of weeks age I reported a couple of problems. The first two turned out not to be serious but the third, where the system freezes, has not stopped happening. Several other people have reported similar problems... Typically my system will die while kde2.1 is starting (about 1 time