Re: 2.1.128 Oops

Tomasz Przygoda (tprzyg@securities.com)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:50:20 -0500


> > We've been having continous lockups from 2.0.35-36 to 2.1.9X's to 2.1.128
> > with our SMP machines for the past 6-9 mos on Dual PPRO's, Dual PII 200's
> > and now Dual PII 400s (last 2 Intel boards..) : Symptoms are black
> > screen..lockups occur randomly sometimes a few days 2-3 with no lockup,

A cure for black screen is simple: setterm -blank 0. It does not cure though
the cause of the crash, but at least you can see some "garbage" on the screen
that may lead you to dicover your problem (I had that same frustration around
a year ago with 2.0.33 SMP crashing)

-- Tomek,
"In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice...."

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