Re: Mysterious kernel lockups

Ganesh Sittampalam (ganesh.sittampalam@magd.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:05:30 GMT


On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:22:26 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I have been experiencing a couple of mysterious lock-ups after
>installing 2.1.115. This leaves no trace of the crash in the logs,
>and outputs no info whatsoever on the console. The only solution has
>been using the "Magic SysRq-key", which is a very handy feature :)
>I'm avare that running a devel-kernel is somewhat risky, but this is
>one of the first problems I've had with one. (Try 'experimental'
>software under wimpdoze, and see what happens ;))
>Has anyone experienced the same problem, or is it me/my hardware that
>is faulty?

I got a solid lock on 2.1.109ac2 after about 8 days uptime a couple
of days ago. Screen had blanked (and auto-powered off) and I wasn't
using remote logging so I have no idea what happened at all. I'm now
on 2.1.115ac2 and working it hard to see if I can get it to happen
again.

Cheers,

Ganesh

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