Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 23 Aug 1997 03:26:07 +1000 (EST) | | From | Marcus Berglund <> | | Subject | Re: Keyboard stopped after 2 day uptime! |
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On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
>I had the same thing happen to me on pre-2.0.31-7 after a couple of >hours of uptime... > >I was using the full text search engine called `Isearch' to re-index the >Linux kernel tree. I allowed it to use 20 megabytes of ram from my 32 >meg machine. It apparently got MORE greedy than that and caused heavy >swapping. I switched virtual consoles to see a `ps' to see how much ram >that is was taking and the getty on the NEW VC said `re-spawning too fast >waiting for 10 minutes.' or something to that effect... I then killed >the re-index process. Everything appeared to be working just fine. I >then `startx' and went on doing other work. ...after about 10 minutes >rxvt quit receiving keystrokes and tkRat (my mailer) didn't receive >keystrokes. I managed to kill all of my sessions (with the mouse) and >stopped fvwm. I used control-alt-delete successfully to reboot the >system.
I unfortunately was unsuccessful with c-a-d, the keyboard was totally unusable, I had X, pine (in an xterm), prompt that had just finished compiling and netscape open, and I also didn't have telnet going at that stage, and was able to exit to the console, closing everything correctly.
>BTW: This happened to me before on 2.0.30. >BTW^2: telnetting into the machine worked JUST FINE.
>> I am runing kernel pre-2.0.31-7, and after 2 days uptime I got this >> message: >> >> Aug 23 00:14:57 mabs kernel: hdg: media changed >> Aug 23 00:44:28 mabs kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } >> Aug 23 00:44:28 mabs kernel: hda: disabled DMA >> Aug 23 00:44:28 mabs kernel: hda: drive not ready for command >> Aug 23 00:44:28 mabs kernel: ide0: reset: success >> Aug 23 00:48:40 mabs kernel: hdg: media changed >> >> And from there on my keyboard stopped working. >> >> Below is my HDD bootup info if anyone is interested: >> >> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 >> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007 >> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3008-0x300f >> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280A, 1222MB w/76kB Cache, CHS=621/64/63, DMA >> Aug 23 01:00:18 mabs kernel: hdc: st3144AT, 124MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=1001/15/17 >> >> I have: >> iP200 >> 24Mb RAM, 98Mb Swap >> Giga-byte GA-586ATM/P M/B >> sda is a 1GB SCSI HDD >> >> P.S. This may have been a spike, but my computer is _very_ spike >> protected, but if beyond resonable doubt, it probably will be... >>
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