Re: hard lockouts
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 05:32:03PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> > I'm running potato on SparcStation 5.
> > I can reproduceably lock it down so hard that only power down can reboot
> > it.
> > It happens when I'm logging into IMP while doing strace on cyrus imap
> > deamon by
> > strace -ff -p `pidof inetd`
> >
> > The lockdown happens during fork(), the second time imapd gets started.
> > The strange thing is that the watchdog does not reset the machine.
> >
> > It would not be a problem of itself, but the lockdowns sometime happen
> > even without the strace, all by themselves.
> >
> > Anyone had a similar problem ?
>
> What kernel are you running?
I've tried both debian stock 2.2.15-sun4cdm and my compiled 2.2.16 with
identical results.
I actually found on deja that other people also had similar lockups on SS5
and some other sparcs.
Sergey.
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