Re: nano: On Oldworld PowerPC, nano freezes machine when help is being displayed
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:49:04PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > The crash occurs mainly when nano is trying to display help. I also
> > had it crash once when pushing a character clear out to
> > the end of a line, then selecting page-down.
> >
> > The patch just uses wredrawln to claim that the 2 help lines are
> > corrupt and asks for them to be completely redrawn rather than
> > just refreshed.
> >
> > Let me know if you would like me to test an updated curses or you
> > have any other ideas.
>
> Rather post debug information from your kernel if available (as in: did
> you get a panic message, and what did it say?).
No, it's an immediate hard lockup. It occurs right after a file writefile,
and the file that's supposed to have been written does not get written.
Is there somewhere I can look after I reboot and it gets done fscking my
drive? btw, about 20% of the time it does such serious damage that it puts
me in maintenance mode on reboot. (I did a *lot* of rebooting to get the
information for the bug.)
> Further, it would help
> tremendously if you could pinpoint the exact ioctl or other syscall
> causing the hang using strace. If there's no panic my best guess is you
> cause a deadlock by one particular ioctl or a particular sequence of
> ioctls. (That would be stuff for linuxppc-dev, then.)
>
i'll give it a shot.
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