Subject: Re: Strange crashes involving ps?
To: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/03/2000 22:53:06
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.

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