Regards
Joerg
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> 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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> E-Mail: Meino Christian Cramer <root@solfire.ludwigsburg.netsurf.de>
> Date: 02-Nov-97
> Time: 15:25:33
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