Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 May 1997 16:10:17 -0400 (EDT) | From | Vince Weaver <> | Subject | Re: Complete lock of 2.1.38 w X and Netscape |
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I have also had 2.1.38 lock with me while running X (XFree86 3.2) and Netscape. (sorry if this has been resolved... I get the kernel digest).
It was a complete lock. No console switching, no mouse movement, even my LED CPU status on the paralell port froze. At the time Netscape 3.01 was loading a file (no Java or anything fancy.. it was http://afterstep.edoc.com if you must know).
Afterwards no messages in the logs, although since I rebooted I had some corrupted files. [And I made the big mistake of running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem... not until I got the message halfway trhough (and too late) saying PROGRAMMING BUG OR SOME BONEHEAD IS USING e2fsck ON A MOUNTED FILESYSTEM... yes I was that bonehead. After I found my slackware bootdisk I think I got it all fixed while only losing a few open text files).
Anyway I have a 486DX2 66, 20 Meg of Ram. I have never had this happen before. I am thinking maybe it has something wrong with netscape. My hardware doesn't really have the RAM to run netscape (w/o swapping) so I usually run it remotely and pipe it over to my display. But today I thought I would run it locally, and that is when the whole machine locked. It seems everyone else with the problem have been running netscape too?
Well I hope this helps in some way. I have never COMPLETELY locked Linux before, and it scared me. Anyway, later.
Vince
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