2.1.42: Strange problem

Tim P. Gerla (timg@means.net)
Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:18:00 -0500 (CDT)

I have been running 2.1.42 for a few weeks now, with few problems
(occasional lockups, but no oopses or anything to post. :( )

Anyway, I have /dev/hda2 mounted as root, /dev/hda4 as /home. While
fscking /dev/hda4 today (after checking /, of course), everything just
stopped doing anything. No hard disk access, nothing. The keyboard still
worked, I could type things and they would appear on the screen as normal.

I pressed Scroll Lock, and this table came up:

free sibling
task pc stack pid father child younger older
init 1 5 FFFFFC18 0 1 0 15
kflushd 2 5 00000002 0 2 1 3
kswapd 3 5 FFFFFC18 0 3 1 4 2
rc.sysinit 4 5 00000009 0 4 1 16 15 3
kerneld 5 5 FFFFFC18 0 15 1 4
fsck 6 5 00000009 0 16 4 17
fsck.ext2 7 D FFFFFC18 0 17 16

It wasn't formatted quite like that. <Control Alt Delete> did nothing, so
I finally just hit reset. Everything booted fine after that.

I'm running with the latest libc/ld.so/binutils... The machine is an AMD
486/120, 32megs of non-parity ram, 425mb Western Digital HD... Any other
info needed?

-Tim

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