On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:58:40PM -0300, Hume Smith wrote:
> I just "upgraded", last night, to 1.4/i386 and kde-1.1.1.  when it gets "busy", it suddenly locks up.  It will do it pretty predictably if i'm compiling and do anything else in X, like read an RFC with more (!); compiling alone while X and KDE is up will sometimes do it.  it just happened with about 4 downloads going on; i went to reply to a msg on kicq and *erk*.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing something like this?  Is it the scheduler, X, or KDE?  (i haven't bashed it without KDE yet, and i think i have only one console, so it's hard to eliminate X and still load it down... i'll try though.)
> 
> i didn't see any mention of such a thing in the bug reports, maybe it's just me (weep).

Do you know if the box is still reacheable from the network ?

One think that can produce this is if the kernel goes to debugger:
as the video board is in graphic mode you can't see the ddb prompt.

Try this (as root):
sysctl -w ddb.onpanic=0
(a better way to do it would be to recompile a kernel without 'options DDB').
The next time the kernel should panic and dump a core instead of freezing,
which could give us important informations.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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