Messages in this thread | | | From | Sidewinder <> | Subject | Re: Linux-1.3.71.. | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:27:54 +0000 (GMT) |
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> On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, Sidewinder wrote: > > > > On another matter, I too have had my console lock up with a blank screen > > when viewing pictures using svgalib. This has only happened recently and was > > reported by other people with 5428 cards. > > > > Was this a a console lockup like the keyboard no longer responding?? I've
Yeah, and its not just svgalib. This morning, it crashed when I tried to start X (Xfree86 3.1.2D admittedly, but it hasn't happened before). Hitting reset was the only thing I could do. No kernel debug info cos it had already switched out of text mode, and nothing in the logs.
Unfortunately it trashed /tmp's root directory, and the kernel fell over *again* in get_free_pages on bootup. There is a major bug somewhere in that function. Often I just get 'Couldn't get a free page...' and one of the agetty's fails to spawn, but sometimes the swapper task will fall over. I don't have the logs on me atm, but this is kernel 1.3.72. I have 8meg ram and 16meg swap.
James -- James M. Box Email: jmbox@dcs.warwick.ac.uk Computer Systems Engineering Email: esuec@csv.warwick.ac.uk University of Warwick, UK WWW: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~jmbox/ ---+++ Finger jmbox@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk for PGP Public Key +++---
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