Subject: Re: Strange crashes involving ps?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/12/2000 04:50:59
Thus spake darcy
> Thus spake Lennart Augustsson
> > I've had my IOpener crash several times the last few days (I've only
> > been using seriously for the last few days). Every occurence is the same.
> > There is some fairly heavy activity, one or two compiles, going on and then
> > I do a ps. And the machine freezes solid. I can't get into the debugger with
> > CTL-ALT-ESC even, so it's probably looping in an interrupt routine.
> > Does this sound fimiliar to anyone?
>
> This exact thing happened to me once while I was in the middle of a "make
> build" but I just completed the build and haven't had the problem since.
> This is on i386. Not sure if this helps but I thought it might be an
> extra datapoint.
The same thing happened again to me. I was in the middle of a "make build"
and I did a ps. It just locked up solid.
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