Re: 2.5.17 Problem

From: Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 17:45:58 EST


* Erik McKee (camhanaich99@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Ok, I am becoming a frequent poster here. Nothing in the logs on this one
> either. Left 2.5.17 running overnight on this box which used to be rock solid
> unser 2.4. kde was running, with a screensaver. On attempting to use the box,
> mouse mvement did dispell the screensaver. alt-ctrl-f2 to get to a vc however
> left me with a clean black screen. Nothing worked....alt-sysrq -s or
> alt-sysrq-u ddin't produce any disk activity. alt-sys-rq-b did however reboot
> the system. only issue was unclean raid array afterwards ;)

is this, by chance, a UP machine with:
CONFIG_SMP=y
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y

i've been seeing regular kernel hangs obtaining the BKL with this
configuration.

thanks,
-chris
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