Joseph Parmelee <jparm...@wildbear.com> writes: > Greetings: > > The gas test suite in recent binutils snapshots from > ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/ consistently freezes my i386 > custom-built kernels. This may be a kernel configuration problem but if so > it has manifested only recently. I have been building kernels since 1995 > and this is the first instance I have seen where the kernel is brought down > by a non-privileged user space process. AIUI this should be impossible > regardless of what that process is doing. The problem affects all kernels > between 3.6.2 and 3.6.6. These are merely the kernels were I have seen the > problem; it may well affect other kernels.
A common cause of this would be running out of memory. While this should eventually resolve itself it may take a long time and the system may appear frozen. I would rerun with an appropiate ulimit setting. -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
