Re: 2.2.x lockup

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2000 - 08:33:14 EST


On 06 Jan 2000 14:23:59 +0100,
Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale <arnaud@carrosse.frmug.org> wrote:
>The box was completely
>frozen, no disk activity, no num lock, no alt+sysrq
>combo. Unfortunately, I have no trace of oops or anything like that ;
>however, as I was looking at the console, I guess I would have seen
>one if it had occured :-)

Not necessarily, if syslogd was frozen then you would not see any
output, even if an oops occurred. A serial console will often capture
the oops, even if syslog is dead.

>Hardware is dual celeron 433 on an abit bp6 mb

A lot of people are seeing hangs on bp6. So much so that there is a
separate mailing list, email Majordomo@listserv.geek.net, "subscribe
linux-abit". Unfortunately we have no handle on this problem yet, only
guesses.

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