Re: apt-get locks machine.
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 18:13, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:15:05PM +0000, Tim Cutts wrote:
> > I've been seeing random ethernet lockups on my alpha PC164 box, with a
> > DEC ethernet card. I have a cron job running every 5 minutes which
> > attempts to ping my firewall. If it fails to get a response, it does
> > ifdown eth0; ifup eth0. Hacky, but works.
>
> A real PC164, ie not an LX or SX? And running under SRM, not MILO?
>
> Be aware that some interrupt delivery patches for PC164 under SRM went
> in to the 2.4.x series along about 2.4.11 or thereabouts, and folks
> that had been complaining about NIC lockups (or worse) were happier...
Yep, I can confirm that. Though IIRC, it was even 2.4.15 or so (the broken
one...)
Ineiti
--
-------------------------------------------------------------
Linus Gasser
EPFL Phone: +41 21 693 5635
Mobile Communications Lab. FAX : +41 21 693 4312
CH-1015 Lausanne email: linus.gasser@epfl.ch
SWITZERLAND WEB : http://lcmwww.epfl.ch
-------------------------------------------------------------
Reply to: