Messages in this thread | | | Subject | complete lockups with 2.3.5 SMP | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 1999 01:38:02 +0200 | From | "Michel Eyckmans (MCE)" <> |
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Greetings,
I've recently had several very solid lockups of my 2.3.5 SMP kernel (compiled with egcs-2.91.66).
The typical situation involves these steps
- First cause a lot of activity on an aha2940 connected hard disk with ext2fs filesystems. Typicallly a `tar cvf - xxx | gzip > yyy' on a +-40MB large directory tree seems to do the trick.
- Then access a vfat filesystem on an Iomega ZIP disk connected to an Iomega aha152x clone. Most of the time I was trying to copy the file created during the first step, but once I got no further than a `df'.
- It seems that I can make it happen right after booting and logging into X.
The symptoms:
- First and foremost, a very solid lockup. Nothing in the logs. (Hmm, well, on one occasion my logs got nuked so I couldn't check)
- On 5 out of 6 occasions, the last visible thing to happen was the appearance of a small 1.5cm by 1.5cm white square containing what looks like a text cursor at some seemingly random position on the screen. It looks a bit like a borderless window, but probably isn't.
Final remark: I've occasionally had similar problems when accessing the ZIP drive in the past (partly many months ago) and reported some of them here. So the problem may not be new. Oh yeah: back in those days I did not use egcs, but good old 2.7.2.
More system info is available on demand if interested.
MCE
PS: I'm staying away from the 2.3.[789] stuff because I need VFAT to work and currently only have backups that suit the really brave :-).
MCE -- ======================================================================== M. Eyckmans (MCE) Code of the Geeks v3.1 mce@ping.be GCS d+ s+:- a33 C+++$ UHLUASO+++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N+++ !o K w--- !O M-- V-- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP- t--- !5 !X R- tv- b+ DI++ D-- G++ e+++ h+(*) !r y? ========================================================================
-- ======================================================================== M. Eyckmans (MCE) Code of the Geeks v3.1 mce@ping.be GCS d+ s+:- a33 C+++$ UHLUASO+++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N+++ !o K w--- !O M-- V-- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP- t--- !5 !X R- tv- b+ DI++ D-- G++ e+++ h+(*) !r y? ========================================================================
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