I also have a lock, while pressing the [BACK] buton
of my Netscape browser _FAST_
Everything locks, except the moving of the cursor (but it still shows
a modified arrow). Nothing else works, NO console switching, no
CTRL-ALT-BSPC to kill X.
If I can do more, please "insruct me".
KEEP HACKING!
meino
On 02-Nov-97 Mathieu Guillaume wrote:
>
> I can't seem to make the magic SysReq thingie work, so I still can't tell
> exactly where the freeze occurs.
>
> I'm tempted to incriminate the disk/filesystem code, since
> - it always happens in times of high disk activity,
> - even if I wait for 15 minutes, when I have errors during the following
> fsck while I reboot, they are always related to the temporary file that
> shoudl have been used (the errors being the classical zero dtime and
> sometimes a bad blocksize).
>
> I also seem to remember that I had freezes in the late 2.1.3x and 2.1.4x
> kernels when doing a rm -rf on big directories (kernel source actually, it
> looked like self-preservation instinct at the time).
>
>>From what I've been able to test, I'd say the only things that still work
> are VT switching and (num|caps|scroll)lock. There is no disk activity, no
> screen activity (except for the blinking cursor, but I believe it's only
> controlled by the videocard), and ctrl-alt-del does not work.
>
> I'm giving up, but I'm still willing to test patches if someone has an
> idea.
>
> Mat
>
>
>
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