Thanks for the response Richard.
I am running 2.2.14 and the grep produced no result, so I guess I'm running
the non-fixed version of the Win4Lin kernel.
Does this deadlock problem explain the freezing of Win4Lin, the inability to
kill off dosexec, or both?
I'll probably wait for the fix for 2.2.14 to be available. Thanks very much
for your help.
Best wishes,
Matt.
>From: Richard Bass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Win4Lin hangs, requiring reboot of Linux
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:14:10 -0800
>
>Matt Doyle wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I recently purchased Win4Lin 2.0 and installed it on my Red Hat 6.2
>system.
> > On the whole it works fine but if it's left unattended for more than
>about
> > half an hour it freezes completely. It also appears to be impossible to
> > kill the two "dosexec" processes that are still running. I've tried
>closing
> > the Win4Lin "Windows" window; kill; kill -9; and kill -15, both as
>normal
> > and superuser.
>
>There was a memory deadlock problem with some of our early kernels.
>You can tell if you have the fix by doing the following:
> grep mki_version_ /proc/ksyms
>
>You should get something like:
> c024f990 mki_version_2_0_1
>
>where the first field (c024f990) may differ. The important thing is
>to see if you get mki_version_2_0_1. If you get nothing as a result
>of the grep, then you don't have a kernel with this fix. At the time
>of the win4lin 2.0 release, the only kernels that had this fix were
> redhat 6.2 Kernel 2.2.16
> redhat 7.0 Kernel 2.2.16
>
>So if you were running the default Redhat 6.2 default kernel (2.2.14),
>then you got a win4lin kernel without the fix. Our kernel production
>person is busy rolling the fix back into previous kernels. At this
>point you can wait for that fix (should be within the month or so),
>OR you can build your own kernel with a new patch, OR you can uninstall
>the win4lin kernel RPM, apply the RedHat update for RH 6.2 that will
>bring your system to the 2.2.16 kernel level, and then install the
>win4lin RH 6.2 2.2.16 kernel.
>
>Richard <rwb>
>
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>NeTraverse, Inc.
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