2.1.91 died in the night

Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@math.uio.no)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:21:54 +0200


My 2.1.91 died silently in the night. This morning the console
was not responding. There was nothing in the syslog (*.debug),
just the normal named statistics until 4am. Uptime at that point
was in the order of 6 hours. Everything was working perfectly
as long as I was using it.

I compiled it with gcc 2.8.1 -mpentium. My hardware has been stable
under all previous releases. These modules were resident:

serial 17892 2 (autoclean)
hisax 73544 1
isdn 75196 3 [hisax]
slhc 4436 1 [isdn]

My configuration:

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_MAX_MEMSIZE=1024
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=m
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW=m
CONFIG_INET_RARP=m
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_IPV6=m
CONFIG_IPV6_EUI64=y
CONFIG_IPV6_NO_PB=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=16
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=5
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_ISDN=m
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y
CONFIG_ISDN_MPP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_AUDIO=y
CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_HISAX=m
CONFIG_HISAX_16_3=y
CONFIG_HISAX_EURO=y
CONFIG_CDROM=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NFSD=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
CONFIG_LOCKD=m
CONFIG_CODA_FS=m
CONFIG_HFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m
CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=m
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_NVRAM=m
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y

Nicolai

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