From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Gwyn Judd , LinuxPPC Developers List Subject: Re: seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:26:40 +0200 Message-Id: <20000705142640.11467@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: <20000706013650.A2546@thislove.dyndns.org> References: <20000706013650.A2546@thislove.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >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 ? ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/