hello,
i'm having a heck of a time trying to debug my system. it originally
started as a redhat 6.2 system using the devel kernels. aside from the
occasional bumps in the road, things generally worked for me. that is,
until 2.3.99-pre7.
even since, when i could get the kernel to boot (i couldn't get pre7 to
boot and pre8 had problems with my usb hardware), it'd crash during disk
writes when using xfree 3.3.6. =20
this holds true right up to 2.4.0-test2. i've upgraded the packages
that needed upgrading according to Documentation/Changes. i've tried
both with and without the utah-glx module loaded. neither of these
things makes any difference. =20
when i run it in console mode, i can't get it to lock up. i also can't
get it to lock up in x reliably. sometimes, it'll run for a few hours
before a lockup, others, five minutes.
now, afaict, these are not normal x lockups. from another machine on my
network, i cannot ping my machine and i cannot establish any other
network connection to it. am i correct in thinking that if it were just
x locking up, i'd still be able to ping my machine and ssh to it?
to check that it's probably not my hardware, i installed freebsd in
another partition and it runs for hours with no problems in xfree 3.3.6.
also, 2.2.16 with andre's udma patches, the agpart patches, and the usb
patches seems to work fine.
when a crash occurs, nothing gets written to any logs (at least, nothing
that actually gets written to disk and saved). the only way i know
something !nice happened the last time my computer had power was when i
power back up and go through the whole fsck process.
i have yet to see if crashes also happen with xfree 4.0. i'm also
considering recompiling 3.3.6 on my own to see if that might fix it. do
you think it'd be worth the effort?
finally, kdb. i've never used it, but i get the impression from what
i've seen on the list that i need either a printer or serial console
hooked to my machine. as i don't have either of these, would it be
possible to take a xover serial cable and plug it from the serial port
of my machine to the serial port of another machine and just run minicom
or something similar on it?
thanks for the help,
pete
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