These lockups happen much more rapidly when the underlying file is on
a umsdos file system than when on a ext2 file system.
This is with a 1.3.88 kernel (as are the bugs I reported earlier today
-- don't know if I mentioned that bit then).
This lockup prevents new processes from getting anywhere.
[I was going to take some register snapshots with alt-scrollock, but
somehow it wasn't working for me. I think it's because I tried
left-alt scrollock rather right-alt scrollock, but the lockup is
rather distressing, and I'm not eager to repeat it.]
Is there anything in particular I should look for?
-- Raul