Alpha "process table hang"

2001-04-11 Thread Bob McElrath
(ldd) 2.2.1 Procps 2.0.7 Net-tools 1.54 Kbd0.94 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded nfsd lockd sunrpc af_packet msdos fat pas2 sound soundcore Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix? -- Bob Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Uni

Re: Alpha "process table hang"

2001-04-11 Thread Bob McElrath
Peter Rival [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > You wouldn't happen to have khttpd loaded as a module, would you? I've seen > this type of problem caused by that before... Nope... > > - Pete > > Bob McElrath wrote: > > > I've been experiencing a

Re: Alpha "process table hang"

2001-04-11 Thread Bob McElrath
has to be a problem in the kernel somewhere) Note that this system was completely stable with 2.2 kernels. Cheers, -- Bob Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics PGP signature

Re: Alpha "process table hang"

2001-04-11 Thread Bob McElrath
ter proc entry\n"); > } > ---snip--- > compile this as kernel module > > insmod proc_kill.o > rmmod proc_kill > > and the system will run without error until you do something like > > ls /proc/or > ls -R /proc > > after this the system will drop dead for minutes to hours or even for good > > > any chance you have a faulty module ?? > > > hofrat -- Bob Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics PGP signature

Re: k 2.4.2; usb; handspring-visor

2001-04-12 Thread Bob McElrath
requiring a cold boot. Switched to the other UHCI driver > and it works fine. Never had to reboot though...on either x86 or alpha with UHCI... Cheers, -- Bob Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics PGP signature

Re: Alpha "process table hang"

2001-04-13 Thread Bob McElrath
seem to be PCI related. Have any significant PCI code changes been made to the alpha architecture, especially pyxis or cabriolet code? I see that arch/alpha/kernel has been totally rearranged, but since this doesn't crash in kernel code, I have no idea how to debug it. Thanks, -- Bob Bob

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]

2001-04-17 Thread Bob McElrath
4 mobo). But I'll apply your patch tonight and let you know the results. Cheers, -- Bob Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics PGP signature

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]

2001-04-19 Thread Bob McElrath
Bob McElrath [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > > So please try to reproduce the hang with 2.4.4pre3 with those two > > patches applied: > > > > >ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kerne

Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention?

2001-04-20 Thread Bob McElrath
ere the arch-specific trees are kept? Where would I go to get the latest set of relevant patches for alpha? Grepping the Documentation/ directory for "alpha" I see nothing relevant. IMHO this should all be listend in one place. Maybe Documentation/Arch-Maintainers.txt. Cheers, -- B

Re: generic rwsem [Re: Alpha "process table hang"]

2001-04-23 Thread Bob McElrath
Andrea Arcangeli [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:21:17AM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote: > > I'm at 2 days uptime now, and have not seen the process-table-hang. > > Looks like this fixed it. Previously I would get a hang in the first > > day or so. I

Re: Mawanella

2001-05-22 Thread Bob McElrath
Mayank Vasa [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Mawanella is one of the Sri Lanka's Muslim Village Looks like a vbs virus to me. Thankfully, we all run linux here...sucker. -- Bob Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics PGP signature

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Bob McElrath
latter. Anybody have a suggestion for a card that isn't a flaming piece of shit, (and not made by Creative) less than $100 US, PCI, supported by linux, and available? Cheers, -- Bob Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics PGP signature

Re: es1371 and recent kernels

2001-06-12 Thread Bob McElrath
is the AudioPCI chip from Ensoniq > before Creative bought them. I thought that was a good chip, too. Argh, I had one of those, gave it away because it would hang my alpha hard (I'm told the card is pretty nonconformant to the PCI spec). *sigh* Nobody out there uses a non-Create PCI card? (oh a

aa's rwsem-generic-6 bug? Process stuck in 'R' state.

2001-04-25 Thread Bob McElrath
ME COMMAND root 7921 0.8 26.9 91720 68608 ? R< 00:33 11:20 /usr/X11R6/bin/X X is niced at -10 and doesn't respond to kill or kill -9. alpha 21164 (ev56) architecture. kernel compiled with: gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0) Cheers, -- Bob Bob McElrath ([EMAIL

Re: it isn't aa's rwsem-generic-6 bug but something else [Re: aa's rwsem-generic-6 bug? Process stuck in 'R' state.]

2001-04-25 Thread Bob McElrath
Andrea Arcangeli [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:39:39PM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote: > > Running 2.4.4pre4 with Andrea's rwsem-generic-6 patch, I have just > > gotten a process stuck in the 'R' state. According to the ps man page > &

Re: it isn't aa's rwsem-generic-6 bug but something else [Re: aa's rwsem-generic-6 bug? Process stuck in 'R' state.]

2001-04-26 Thread Bob McElrath
Andrea Arcangeli [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:38:02AM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote: > > When I posted this bug originally, you came right out and said it was > > probably the rwsemaphores. I really have no idea how the rwsemaphores > > You were talki

Re: Broken gcc ?

2001-05-02 Thread Bob McElrath
..sorta. It will compile the kernel. But in my development using lots of STL and C++, I've become an expert at generating "Internal compiler error" with it. YMMV. > Apologies if this is not the proper list for this question, and yes, > thanks in advance. Not really...