Re: 2.1.76 oops

Tuomas Heino (tbittih@xgw.fi)
Sat, 3 Jan 1998 13:54:17 +0200 (EET)


On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:

> Ben Woodard wrote:
> > I got a series of oopses while running an unpatched version of
> > 2.1.76. They all seem to be in exactly the same place. The problem seemed to > arise after I unsuspened my computer.
>
> I posted a patch a while back to try to track down these dcache errors
> -- the problem is that the oops occurs long after whatever operation
> caused the problem.
>
> It would help if you could apply the attached patch and try to replicate
> the problem. Then if one of the messages shows up, make a note of
> whatever you were doing in the preceeding few seconds.
>
For me that patch has actually prevented those OOPSes... odd, isn't it?
[got those OOPSes daily 'fore that patch... now been up for a week without a single OOPS]