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SubjectRe: Consistent complete lock up with 2.6.8.1-mm2 and vuescan, no serial console output
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:29:08 +0200 (SAST) Jaco Kroon wrote:

| Norbert Preining said:
| > Hi Andrew, hi Ed, hi list!
| > Anyway it would be nice to hear at least a comment from one of you on
| > how to proceed with this. Since it is 100% repeatable here, it would be
| > nice if it can be fixed. It suprises me that the whole kernel just
| > completely freezes, while only disk io and cpu is used, there is no
| > usage of usb stuff (besides the usb serial console, but also wihtout
|
| I've got a similar problem on an old pentium 90 machine. When compiling
| glibc it'll run for about a day and then die with absolutely nothing in
| the logs. I've got a serial cable and another machine, so if someone can
| point me at documentation on how to set it up I'd be willing to collect
| whatever information I can over the weekend.

You want this one:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/index.html


| Jaco
|
| >
| > On Don, 12 Aug 2004, preining wrote:
| >> The problem persisted with 2.6.8-rc4-mm1, always (repeatable 100%) after
| >> around 30 scans the computer freezes completely. Not even sysrq works.
| >>
| >> But at least what I could check was that it is not a memory problem,
| >> there is still enough swap free (close to 1G).
| >>
| >> So what can I do, any ideas?
| >>
| >> On Mon, 09 Aug 2004, preining wrote:
| >> > I have a bit of a problem here: I am scanning with vuescan (latest
| >> > version) on linux-2.6.8-rc3-mm1 a lot of images from raw files, i.e.
| >> > only data io from the hard disk, no usb etc interferes, and always
| >> after
| >> > 20/30 something images the computer freezes completely. Not even Sysrq
| >> > works. Only reset button. Of course, the syslog shows up nothing.
| >> >
| >> > Is there anything you two can think of what could be the reason?
| >> >
| >> > (and no, I have no chance to use serial console, but I doubt it would
| >> be
| >> > useful)


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