From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Mario Scarpa , LinuxPPC Developers List Subject: Re: seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:43:02 +0200 Message-Id: <20000705154302.13586@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: <396353DD.7F1C5E7A@mondonet.net> References: <396353DD.7F1C5E7A@mondonet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >I've got a lombard (400MHz, 64MB) and had precisly the same >behaviour: I was playing some MP3s (mpg123 under X 3.3.6-8 >debianPPC) and the system just crashed two times this morning; >coz I tried to ping it from another machine and coz I tried >to shut X down but everything was failing (definitively a system >crash I would say)... >Another brick in the wall...the MP3 I was listening this morning >where both on a CDROM and on a HD and yesterday, just doing a lot >of HD traffic (moving around some huge dirs) I had another lock; >it doesn't happen so often (would say never)...could it be something >related to the IDE driver ? Kernel here 's 2.2.17pre7 rsynced >from linuxcare. Thinking about it... you may have triggered a threading kernel bug that was fixed very recently in mmap (and sounds usually uses mmap a lot, X too). I'll post a new kernel that has this fix today or tomorrow, let's see if it corrects your problem. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/