From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 02:03:42 +1200 From: Gwyn Judd To: LinuxPPC Developers List Subject: Re: seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7 Message-ID: <20000706020342.B986@thislove.dyndns.org> References: <20000706013650.A2546@thislove.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from me@johngrimes.com on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:51:09AM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:51:09AM -0500, me@johngrimes.com wrote: > Gwyn, > Might be related or might not but I have recently started having > troubles too with random locks. > Now I am running 2.2.15 (but this started happening soon after the > upgrade) > Now my error is not directly with the kernel though. If I am in > the console it has never happened but only if I am in X. In fact its X > that crashes but as no keys work it doesn't matter. Now I always have > xmms open when I crash but it also might be a screensaver problem as it > always happens when the screensaver is one (which is the majority of the > time though). > Does this sound similar? > Do you have an ati rage 128gl card by chance? > John This all sounds quite familiar. The lockups have happened with both xmms and mpg123. I have no idea if it is a full system lock or just X since I have no remote machine to ping it with, all I am able to do is force reboot. It happened also with 2.2.15 I think as well as 2.2.16 -- Gwyn Judd (b.judd@xtra.co.nz) With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm? ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/