Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-22,: Re: Everyone's a captain on a calm sea...

# Re: Everyone's a captain on a calm sea...

Ted Rolle (ted@acacia.datacomm.com)
Sun, 30 May 1999 20:11:23 -0700 (PDT)

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Well, it's been a well-known problem since as far back as RH 4.2.
It has persisted all this time -- I checked on #linux and others confirmed
it.

Is there a 'back door' to get a terminal session? What about Alt-SysRq?

My own systems have all been i486+. The lockup seems to occur at random
times when Netscape is up. There is constant disk activity during the
problem; response is slow -- 30 seconds for the cursor to move after
the mouse has moved -- sometimes.

What information should I gather when the problem recurs? I _may_ have a
set of data that can reproduce the problem -- it is a message of my wife's
on usa.net that locked it up twice.

I realize that this a "something's wrong, please fix it" request, but it
points to a long-standing problem: that of ending a rogue program.
Perhaps someone else can provide more information.

On Mon, 31 May 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > It seems that the OS should be able to detect a rogue application
> > and take some corrective action -- just letting me log in on a different
> > terminal to kill the offending process would be sufficient.
>
> Nod
>
> However before anyone can even guess what problems you are seeing, you need
> to provide some basic info - kernel version, architecture, general machine
> info, accurate report of the lockup
>

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