Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 8 May 1996 23:07:31 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kevin M Bealer <> | Subject | Re: new kernels dies on my hardware |
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On Tue, 7 May 1996, Dmitry E. Kim wrote:
> > hello people, > > i just have no idea what's wrong with it, and that's why i'm posting > it here: > > the problem is, all the relatively new kernels (from 1.3.87 to 1.3.97) > die in ten minutes on my machine. no "oops", not a single word to console > or syslog, nothing -- it just dies, stops swapping and everything else > and only allows to switch between virtual terminals on console, so i have > to power my machine off. as for hardware, i have pci asustek motherboard, > 32 megs of ram, one smc-ultra and one wd80x3 ethernet cards, well, nothing > else special. i tried different scsi controllers (pci ncr and aha2940), > but it doesn't matter. as for software, i have gcc-2.7.2, libc-5.2.18, > binutils 2.5.2l.17, no kerneld, both ethernet card drivers built as > modules, as well as ppp/slhc/bsd_comp. > when i boot new kernel (one of the mentiomed above), it lives ok > for 10 - 13 minutes, when dies. > thus, i currently use 1.3.77, and it feels fine. but i'm troubled > by the fact that i don't know why new kernel hangs. if anybody has any > ideas about it, please let me know. > > cheers, > jason.
Just a shot in the dark, but I compiled a-out support as a module once and the system behaved like this.
The a-out 'bdflush' type daemons could not start during bootup, since a-out/kerneld had not loaded yet.
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