Re: seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:10:22PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:

What versions of X are you using? Someone reported lockups with the 4.0 r128
driver a long time ago and someone else suggested it might be bad interaction
between the graphics and sound devices.

[gwyn@thislove:~]$ rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-3.3.6-8a

Looks like no dice there I'm afraid. I upgraded from 3.3.5-something a
week or so ago to see if that would solve it but to no avail.

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Gwyn,
	It does look we might have the same bug.  I'm not using XFree86-4
either I'm also at XFree86-3.3.6-8a.  Did you say you had a rage128gl
card?  Although I do usually have xmms open when I crash I usually am not
playing sound so I don't think thats the problem.
	Where can I get the latest 2.2 series kernel and more importantly,
the latest rage128gl drivers (source off course is fine).  I use some hfs
so I don't really want to try 2.4pre series as yet.
	It also might be time to try Xfree86-4 (although I don't think
this would fix it).  I really want to get multihead to work but I didn't
have any luck with Xfree86-4 in the earlier incarnations to even get one
monitor working.
					John
PS I am using BootX but I don't think that is the problem.


On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Gwyn Judd wrote:

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:10:22PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:

quoted

What versions of X are you using? Someone reported lockups with the 4.0 r128
driver a long time ago and someone else suggested it might be bad interaction
between the graphics and sound devices.

[gwyn@thislove:~]$ rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-3.3.6-8a

Looks like no dice there I'm afraid. I upgraded from 3.3.5-something a
week or so ago to see if that would solve it but to no avail.

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Assure us that it must be so.
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What nobody is sure about.
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me@johngrimes.com wrote:

It also might be time to try Xfree86-4 (although I don't think this would
fix it).

I use 4.0x ...

I really want to get multihead to work but I didn't have any luck with
Xfree86-4 in the earlier incarnations to even get one monitor working.

At least one head should work well now. You may want to use Jack Howarth's
RPMs.


Michel


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me@johngrimes.com wrote:

Gwyn,
        It does look we might have the same bug.  I'm not using XFree86-4
either I'm also at XFree86-3.3.6-8a.  Did you say you had a rage128gl
card?  Although I do usually have xmms open when I crash I usually am not
playing sound so I don't think thats the problem.
        Where can I get the latest 2.2 series kernel and more importantly,
the latest rage128gl drivers (source off course is fine).  I use some hfs
so I don't really want to try 2.4pre series as yet.
        It also might be time to try Xfree86-4 (although I don't think
this would fix it).  I really want to get multihead to work but I didn't
have any luck with Xfree86-4 in the earlier incarnations to even get one
monitor working.
                                        John
PS I am using BootX but I don't think that is the problem.

Hi there,

I've got a lombard (400MHz, 64MB) and had precisly the same
behaviour: I was playing some MP3s (mpg123 under X 3.3.6-8
debianPPC) and the system just crashed two times this morning;
coz I tried to ping it from another machine and coz I tried
to shut X down but everything was failing (definitively a system
crash I would say)...
Another brick in the wall...the MP3 I was listening this morning
where both on a CDROM and on a HD and yesterday, just doing a lot
of HD traffic (moving around some huge dirs) I had another lock;
it doesn't happen so often (would say never)...could it be something
related to the IDE driver ? Kernel here 's 2.2.17pre7 rsynced
from linuxcare.

bye,

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I've got a lombard (400MHz, 64MB) and had precisly the same
behaviour: I was playing some MP3s (mpg123 under X 3.3.6-8
debianPPC) and the system just crashed two times this morning;
coz I tried to ping it from another machine and coz I tried
to shut X down but everything was failing (definitively a system
crash I would say)...
Another brick in the wall...the MP3 I was listening this morning
where both on a CDROM and on a HD and yesterday, just doing a lot
of HD traffic (moving around some huge dirs) I had another lock;
it doesn't happen so often (would say never)...could it be something
related to the IDE driver ? Kernel here 's 2.2.17pre7 rsynced
from linuxcare.

Thinking about it... you may have triggered a threading kernel bug that
was fixed very recently in mmap (and sounds usually uses mmap a lot, X too).

I'll post a new kernel that has this fix today or tomorrow, let's see if
it corrects your problem.

Ben.


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