Re: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

2004-12-02 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:30:11AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > Where can I find that "little CPU burn-in proggie"? There is a live CD called stresslinux. I played with it very little. > > My purpose in asking the mailing list was mainly to find if anyone knows > about any issue with 2.6.8, which co

Re: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

2004-12-02 Thread Omer Zak
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 05:01, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Thu, 02 Dec: > > Any clues? > > Is it a known problem of kernel 2.6.8 (after having been patched by > > Debian)? > > What can I do to trap the failure which causes the kernel to lockup? > > no problems at this end

Re: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

2004-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
Trying to eliminate possible hardware causes, I have tried ping -fi 0 10.0.0.138 in order to stress the network card suspected to be active at lockups (which seem to occur only if connection to the Internet is active). No lockup happened. Also, I did not experience lockups when downloading debian

Re: Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

2004-12-01 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Thu, 02 Dec: > Any clues? > Is it a known problem of kernel 2.6.8 (after having been patched by > Debian)? > What can I do to trap the failure which causes the kernel to lockup? no problems at this end... does it happen also with other kernels, say an earlier or

Frequent lock-ups of Debian Testing Linux when connected to the Internet

2004-12-01 Thread Omer Zak
Recently I have been experiencing very frequent lock-ups of my PC. I had to press the RESET button to release the lockup. When the lockup occurs, neither the keyboard nor the mouse respond. My software configuration: Kernel: 2.6.8-1-686 pptp-linux 1.5.0-4 pptpd 1.2.1-2 xfree864.3.0.dfs