Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-11 Thread Nik Clayton
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:48:45AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > In otherwords, unplug your palm pilot and attach a console. > > I'm going to get my friend to get a traceback and whatever else is > possible. He has a laptop and "null" s

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > The syptoms are that the machine locks up. Hard. But there's a catch: > > Erm, Brian, You *know* nobody can debug a problem like this without > hard information. It's like calling a mechanic on the phone and > saying "My car won't go. It just

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> The syptoms are that the machine locks up. Hard. But there's a catch: Erm, Brian, You *know* nobody can debug a problem like this without hard information. It's like calling a mechanic on the phone and saying "My car won't go. It just doesn't move at all! Tell me what's wrong!" Compile in

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > This can happen when the kernel is stuck in an infinite loop > somewhere, you're still responding to interrupts, just stuck > somewhere. > > FYI: > ~ % uname -a > FreeBSD thumper 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Apr 2 16:29:20 PDT 2000 >

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Brian Somers
> Well, it seems that -CURRENT likes locking up nowdays. It started happening > very recently, and I (as well as jlemon) do suspect that it's a problem > with some of the changes that were made to the syscall mechanisms on > 3/28/2000. > > Keep in mind that this problem is completely corroborate

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Brian Fundakowski Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000409 18:30] wrote: > Well, it seems that -CURRENT likes locking up nowdays. It started happening > very recently, and I (as well as jlemon) do suspect that it's a problem > with some of the changes that were made to the syscall mechanisms on > 3/