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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@mipsys.com>
To: Gwyn Judd <b.judd@xtra.co.nz>,
	LinuxPPC Developers List <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:26:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000705142640.11467@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000706013650.A2546@thislove.dyndns.org>


>This has me puzzled. I'm not sure if it is a kernel panic or just X
>freezing since it never leaves anything in the logs. Has anyone had this
>problem? It seems to happen most often when I am listening to mp3's
>although it has happened a few times while it was just sitting there
>doing nothing.
>
>Also I am using BootX. Someone mentioned that the kernel is unreliable
>with BootX. I have not experienced any problems (barring the one that I
>mentioned) with it. What sorts of things are likely to happen? What is
>the upgrade process like to go to one of the newer bootloaders?

yaboot is only useful if you have a newworld mac.

Did you try killing the X server (ctrl-command-option-backspace) ? Does
it work ?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-07-05 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-05 13:36 seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7 Gwyn Judd
2000-07-05 13:45 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-07-05 13:57   ` Gwyn Judd
2000-07-05 20:13     ` Magic SysRq key [was Re: seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7] phandel
     [not found] ` <Pine.SGI.4.21.0007050845550.10655-100000@rainbow.uchicago.edu>
2000-07-05 14:03   ` seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7 Gwyn Judd
2000-07-05 14:10     ` Michel Dänzer
2000-07-05 14:17       ` Gwyn Judd
2000-07-05 14:47         ` me
2000-07-05 15:00           ` Michel Dänzer
2000-07-05 15:27           ` Mario Scarpa
2000-07-05 15:43             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]     ` <l03130300b58a3be9712a@[209.122.247.91]>
2000-07-06 22:17       ` Fixing dead Xservcfers (was Re: seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7) Gwyn Judd
2000-07-05 14:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2000-07-05 14:36   ` seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7 Michel Dänzer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-07-05 14:18 Iain Sandoe

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