Re: 2.1.86 Boot fails

David Burrows (snadge@gemcorp.com.au)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:50:48 +1000 (EST)


On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Jeff DeFouw wrote:

> I just updated from 2.1.85 to 2.1.86 without any changes to my
> configuration and 2.1.86 has problems booting. Once it reaches init,
> processes spontaneously become stopped. Control-C knocked off the first
> one but then it happened to one of the next processes. This happened to
> "update" and a few fsck commands and other programs running off my init
> scripts. I sent a kill to all processes a few times until I got to the
> login prompt where I attempted to log on, and all processes locked up. A
> process list showed that most of my processes were in the running state,
> and a couple were stopped, all unkillable. I compiled for UP. I'll try
> to figure out the problem when I have time later, if someone else hasn't
> figured it out.

I had this problem with pgcc 1.01 and -O9 and -mpentium... I recompiled
-O3 -mpentium and it went away.. hope that helps. :)

Dave.

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