Re: [SOLVED]Re: 2.2.19 && ppa: total lockup. No problem with 2.2.17

[Juan <piernas@ditec.um.es>]

Tim Waugh escribió:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:59:39AM +0200, Juan Piernas Canovas wrote:
> 
> > Yes!!!. It works. I am happy now :-)
> 
> Unfortunately, the problem isn't solved, merely worked around.  We
> need to figure out why this is happening in the first place.
:-(

> 
> To recap, the system hangs completely when you load the ppa module.
Right

> 
> Are you using any special parport/ppa parameters?  Is this an SMP or a
> uniprocessor machine?  Come to that, which architecture is it?
> 
I have the same problem in two different machines but they both are UP.
However, my kernel configuration has SMP support enabled.

My modules.conf file is:

alias scsi_hostadapter ppa
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7


> Are there any messages displayed to the console when the hang happens?
> If you could scatter some printks around (KERN_CRIT so they show up on
> the console) to figure out the example point at which it's hanging,
> that would be great.

I stop klogd and syslogd services (that causes to display all kernel
messages on screen, doesn't it? and, when I load the ppa modules, the
machine simply hangs: no messages, no sysreq key anymore.

Bye!

	Juan.

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D. Juan Piernas Cánovas
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Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia
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