Re: CDROM freezes (Re: Kernel 126 problem)

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:27:10 -0800 (PST)

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> > tried to access my RedHat 5.1 CD - mounted by autofs - and got to
> > ls /misc/cd/live
> > where I pressed <TAB> to expand the list. The system froze at this
> > point: no mouse, no keyboard and no response to ping from another box.
>
> As I wrote yesterday: Me too. :-(
>
> I can now reproduce the locks I've seen... It can happen with
> every cd access, not only autofs. In my case it
> crashes with a NULL pointer dereference in sock.c:sock_rfree()+0xd:

Are you using knfsd? There have been a number of severe knfsd
problems reported recently. Either way, I don't think this has
anything to do with autofs, so I don't think I can help.

-hpa

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