From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:22:59 -0400 From: Dan Foster To: Gwyn Judd Cc: LinuxPPC Developers List Subject: Re: X still locks up Message-ID: <20000706232259.A3148@frontiernet.net> References: <20000707142631.B804@thislove.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000707142631.B804@thislove.dyndns.org>; from b.judd@xtra.co.nz on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 02:26:31PM +1200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hot Diggety! Gwyn Judd was rumored to have wrote: > > Here is an update on the status: > > 1) I tried installing the Xpmac.rev10 server that someone recommened in > the hope that that would fix the problem. Unfortunately it didn't as > five minutes ago the system locked up yet again. This seems to suggest > it may be kernel related rather than X related. > > 2) I recompiled my kernel wth the "Magic Sysrq" support in it. This > seems to work more or less as designed. However when the system locked > up as before the "magic sysrq" key did not work at all meaning I had to > reboot without being able to shut down properly. This suggests to me > that the kernel had itself crashed. Exact same thing on my previously rock solid x86 box - only change was that I'd just upgraded to XFree86 4.0.1 and kernel 2.2.16, from XFree86 3.3.6 and kernel 2.2.13. The behavior is identical - makes me wonder if this was the mmap() bug that BenH previously mentioned, and if this was a cross-platform issue not just isolated to PPC? -Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/