Re: Sporadious hang on 2.0.3[0,1,2,3,4pre2]

G. Sumner Hayes (sumner@collegium.adsl.net.cmu.edu)
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 14:47:37 -0500


Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, G. Sumner Hayes wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of switching over to 2.1.x, but if I could get the
> > debugging patches I'd love to help figure out what the problem in 2.0.x is.
>
> A few things have been suggested. Hopefully a 2.0.34pre3 will be out soon
> addressing these. IP masq was one possibly problem..

Yes, I've been following the discussion. I don't use IP masq (and it's not
built into my kernels), so it's probably not the culprit in my case. I
also have turned of SKB_LARGE and PCI bridge optimizations; neither of those
helped. gcc 2.7.2.3, 2.8.0, and egcs-1.0.1 all show this behavior. (I was
hoping that fiddling with compilers might move code around just enough to
hide the problem).

If I could find the aforementioned debugging patches, I'd love to apply them
and see if I can help sort things out; mysterious hangs with no oops or
other information (shift-scrollock and other magic keys don't work) aren't
much to go on, so I can't be helpful until I find some way to gather more
information.

-Sumner

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