Matthew Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently got a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) and have installed testing > on it and set up pretty much everything as I like it. However I've run into > a problem that I haven't seen before which confounds all my attempts to sort > it out. > > Basically, after a few days of uptime, it seems as though some processes > stop working correctly, not starting properly and also refuse to quit > or allow themselves to be killed. Specifically terminal windows (xterm, > rxvt) open, but do not run a shell, and XEmacs also hangs midway through > initialization. There are also numerous qmail-local processes stuck, but > which refuse to be killed. Also, any PCMCIA cards I have in the machine > work until they are ejected, but nothing happens when they are reinserted. > I am still able to log in fine from the console, and the affected processes > do not appear to be zombies, so I am at a loss as to what is going on under > the hood. > > I compiled my own kernel (2.4.18) and tried some new options that I'd not > used before such as devfs, ext3, alsa and hotplug support so I'm wondering > if this could be a kernel problem. Anyone heard of something like this > happening before?
Err, you did read Documentation/filesystems/devfs/README, didn't you? If not, recompile your kernel without devfs and I think your problems will disappear. Using devfs takes a bit more than a CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y in your config. -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 LPIC-2 -- I hack, therefore I am -- BOFH
