Re: Clue on 2.0.33 crashes
Benjamin C.R. LaHaise (blah@kvack.org)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:38:17 -0500 (EST)
On 19 Feb 1998, Camm Maguire wrote:
...
> Greetings! This may help narrow down the source of the mysterious
> 2.0.33 crashes. I can reliably freeze my 2.0.33 machine by running
> xntpd in debug mode (with several -d command line flags) when it is
> setup to poll the NIST time server via a modem. The call is
> completed, several time packets are read, and the line is dropped
> before the machine immediatedly freezes, with nothing but a hardware
> reset to recover. right alt+ scroll lock shows nothing. When run
> without the -d options, xntpd dies with signal 1 at the same point in
> its synchronization step, but the machine is still alive.
I'll just add that vanilla 2.0.33 on a DEC AlphaStation 200 4/166 will
Oops as soon as xntpd is loaded. It's quite the bummer as I really need
xntpd to make nfs tolerable, and I don't have time to debug it right now.
-ben
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