Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 1996 12:50:45 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Sudden, dramatic death with 2.0.17 |
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On Mon, 2 Sep 1996 brianc@saintjoe.edu wrote:
> I can barely call myself hacker, but I try to run latest kernel revisions > on a variety of machines as an exercise in masochism. > > I just patched up to 2.0.17 on a GW2K, 16MB Pentium, ELF, etc. etc. > > I have had essentially rock-stable performance with previous kernel versions. > B/c I had read about problems with 15 & 16, I went 14->17. > > When I use PPP, the instant that the ppp daemon sends > > "Connect ppp0 <--> /dev/cua0" > > I am dead in the water. Nothing in the log files, but the system crashes > totally and has to be reset-ed. > Hmm, if you can get it to lock again, try messing with AltGr-ScrollLock (aka RightAlt-ScrollLock) to see where in the kernel you are (if that dosn't work, then the box is totaly locked :(.
[...] > If there's some obvious dumb thing I'm doing, I'd be glad to hear about it. >
Can't tell, you didn't give enough info to tell us that ;).
> Thanks. > > Brian Capouch >
Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( and I don't care ;) | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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