On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Patrick Welche wrote:

> (That should have read "Doing a ./configure in ccvs" hence getting stuck in tr
> or even sed later)
> 
> This seems to have something to do with Cyrix. I just moved the
> disks / peripherals to a
> 
> cpu0: family 5 model 4 step 3
> cpu0: Intel Pentium/MMX (586-class)
> 
> as opposed to a
> 
> cpu0: family 6 model 0 step 0
> cpu0: Cyrix 6x86MX (686-class)
> 
> and even ran "top" in another window given the thread "Strange crashes
> involving ps?" ie., changed CPU/motherboard/memory. Note that during the
> freeze, the cyrix would still respond to pings. telnet would connect, but no
> prompt would appear. All terminal windows would freeze.

I've also experienced similar freezing problems with 1.5_ALPHA on an
Intel Pentium, though. The first time it happened was when i was compiling
ssh, all terminals just froze and my cpu busy light came on and stayed on,
until i hard booted. The second time it was after i had mounted an MSDOS
FS, and i `ls`'d it....It froze then. I haven't been able to test if it
would respond to pings, telnet, or anything, but the problems sound rather
similar. Mine is a clean snapshot install from 20000620-1.5. I have reason
to believe it may be the Generic 1.5_ALPHA kernel in that snapshot,
etc...But I'm really not sure. Another one of my machines exhibited
similar behaviours before i put 1.5A kernel compiled from CVS sources a
week ago. It froze, and i had to drive 15 minutes to console to see it
just sitting there...

-William

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