Re: 2.2.15 Random Lockups

From: Roeland Th. Jansen (roel@grobbebol.xs4all.nl)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 14:00:35 EST

> The other failure mode is the machine will stop responding, you can't
> telnet/rlogin/ssh in, Apache won't response, etc. But whatever you type at the
> console is echoed and you can still switch virtual consoles. However, if you
> switch consoles and get a new login prompt and type a password, the password
> prompt never appears. You can continue to switch consoles and type things and
> see it echo but the machine continues not to respond. Control-Alt-Delete also
> does not work, but in this failure mode L1-A does work.
>
> Neither failure mode produces any console messages, no OOPS, no spin_lock
> deadlock errors, NADA, which needless to say doesn't make troubleshooting easy.

the 2nd one is also observed by me with 2.2.15 and x86 SMP.

I just started Linux grobbebol 2.2.16pre7 #1 SMP Wed May 31 16:37:31 GMT
2000 i686 unknown in order to see if this fixes things. 

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