Re: Lombard hard freeze (update: mem>64MB)

I had a couple of incidents of strange modem or serial port
behaviour. It went away for no aparend reason.
I am not sure if it is a related problem, though.

One of my friend suggested to check on the serial numbers and ask
apple if this was a line of production somehow special
(done with certain chips or on the same week or something.)

The People count, btw is up to  6:2.

Best bet: Try the mem=64M option, if hard freezes cannot be triggered
anymore you might have the same problem.


        Hard Freezes occuring:

Tim Wojtulewicz         Pismo   128 MB
Bernhard Reiter         Lombard 128,192   2.2.14, 2.2.15pre19
Gabriel Ricard          Lombard 192 MB   + other problems
mpas1@nospam.iol.it (Marco Pascucci) 
			Lombard 192 MB	went away with "mem=64M"
Mario Scarpa            hard freeze as described?  64 MB + other problems
unit@panix.com		hard freeze as described? Walstreet 192 MB  ppp problem


        Running fine:

jeramy b smith          lombard 192 MB
chris mccraw            lombard 128 MB          2.2.12 thru 2.2.15pre20


	Bernhard



On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 02:42:15AM -0400, unit@panix.com wrote:

it should also be noted that the wallstreet is suffering hard crashes
also (at least i am) .. just to complicate the issue.

My particular problem (which i had posted to the group a few weeks
back) relates to ppp (though what exactly locks up the machine i have
no idea).

What happens is this:

I am connected via ppp, my connection drops (which it is know to do
reasonably regularly). I restart the connection (/sbin/ifup ppp0), if i
tail -f */messages it goes through the whole connection procedure and
then once the handshaking has taken place, everything locks. 
I've attempted to run pppd via console which works,
but the moment i switch console, again everything locks w/ no possiblity
of switching console. I've had this happen under these exact circumstances
on 20+ occasions, so, at least in my case it is reproducable. This only
happens after a modem hang-up, and i have yet to have one instance of
restarting ppp without this happening. 

As far as compiling i have had no problems (mozilla being a recent 'large'
compile that wen't w/out incident.

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Bernhard Reiter wrote:

Mario Scarpa            hard freeze as described?  64 MB + other problems

Hi Bernhard,

I was out for a while, now I'm back.
My config is like the following:
Lombard 400MHz with 64MB (from Apple) running 2.2.15pre20 on Debian 2.2.

I'm experiencing (seldom) freezes with this config when I have
some heavy network activity and, even more seldom, when the
system boots up and initialize the serial driver.
My problems started when I compiled the USB driver into the kernel
(or, at least, began to be visible).

No problem during any compilation (and I do quite a lot of this)...

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Mario Scarpa

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