From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39659E42.28063140@student.ethz.ch> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 11:09:22 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gwyn Judd CC: LinuxPPC Developers List Subject: Re: X still locks up References: <20000707142631.B804@thislove.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Gwyn Judd 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. > > 3) When I rebooted there was no kernel panic in the logs. This has me > puzzled. I suppose it could have crashed and not had it written out to > disk in time. On the otherhand this has happened before and each time > there is no panic. All these things may also indicate a hardware lockup - let's not hope so... Michel -- The computer revolution is over. The computers won. ______________________________________________________________________________ Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/