On Sun, 1 Feb 1998 10:51:46 +0200 
 Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> wrote:

Do you have swap space configured?  (run swapctl -l)

 > My 1.3 machine had been running happily (well, been running, at least)
 > all night long.  This morning I used Netscape, xterm etc. and then
 > suddenly I was no longer able to run shell commands.  I was able to
 > type in xterm windows, but the machine didn't load the commands (or
 > give me a new prompt).  It still responded to ping and routed packets
 > between PPP and Ethernet and I was still able to change focus with 
 > mouse.  It was like the system couldn't load anything from the disk.
 > 
 > I have a NCR810 SCSI controller and my system disk hanging off it.
 > The SCSI LED was off, so I don't think the bus had frozen.  There
 > was no disk activity (IDE or SCSI).
 > 
 > I had to reboot, but no crash dump was created.. so I have no idea of
 > what had happened.  This machine worked very reliably under 1.2 so
 > I don't think there's a hardware problem..
 > 
 > Sigh, why doesn't 1.3 like me? :-(
 > 
 >   -jm
 > 

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