On 05 Feb 2002, Arne Goetje wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:53, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the frequent > > > lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4 series kernels is due to > > > enabling ext3. If I turn this off in fstab the lockups don't occur. Has > > > anyone else seen this? > > > > I had 2 hard lock-up with newly ext3 enabled system. > > > > I observed some irregularity with X start up so I thought it was new X. > > Console where I run startx become white. I have 3dfx on cheep SMP box > > (Abit BP6). SMP keep popping up interrupt error, anyway. > > > > Nice thing is rebooting is much faster with exi3 after hard lock up like > > this which requires brutal power-off button action. > > > > Oh, I use standard kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp > > Can it be that it is a kernel version issue? I use 2.2.14 with ext3-patch > (self compiled) and don't have any problems at all. In which situations do > you get these lockups? > > Cheers > Arne > --
I don't think it's related to kernel version, at least in my case. It's happened with all kernels from 2.4.10 onwards. Incidentally, I believe there are known problems with lockups in SMP, but I don't have that. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]
