From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:21:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:21:13 -0500 Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.43]:1705 "EHLO mta03-svc.ntlworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:21:06 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 16:20:55 +0000 From: Anthony Campbell To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Repeated lockups caused by ext3? Message-ID: <20020201162055.GA1318@debian.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org For the past couple of months I have been getting repeated lockups using 2.4 kernels; 2.4.17 at present. They always occur when I'm on line and downloading, never at other times, and never on kernel 2.2.20. No particular process seems to cause it. When it happens, all keys are inoperative, the modem stops working, and the hard disk light is permanently on. They never occur on my laptop, using kernel 2.4.17. They began to occur at about 2.4.10. I kept attributing them to VM issues and fiddled with all sorts of things in the BIOS, without result. However, I've now found that they don't occur if I don't use ext3. This therefore seems to be the answer in my case. Is this a known issue, and is there any way of getting ext3 to work? For the record: Processor is Intel Coppermine 600Mhz; 192M memory. Not using hdparm. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]