Re: Wtf? puzzling lock-ups

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Pollywog wrote:
> 
> On 12-Aug-99 Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> > Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11-Aug-99 Jim wrote:
> >> > Hi.  As the subject suggests, I get strange freeze-ups on my machine.
> >> > Yes,
> >> > it's definitely frozen... I can't ping it from my lan, and nothing
> >> > responds... no keybd, no mouse, no nothing.
> >> >
> > Which kernel version are y'all running?  I notice you, Wim, are using
> > setiathome.  Are you using diald?  I'm seeing lockups right after boot,
> > using 2.0.36, when diald has dialed out due to named trying to sysquery
> > its "cache" nameservers (I don't know why it wants to do this).
> >
> 
> I am using Potato with kernel 2.2.10 and I am not having those problems.
> Thought about upgrading your kernel?  Or maybe trying one of the diald
> versions from stable?  I seem to recall that the "stable" diald versions had
> problems with the 2.2.x kernels, so perhaps the diald versions from
> "stable" work best for 2.0.x kernels.  If you are using Slink, then none of
> what I just said would apply.
> 
Hmmm.  I am using a 2.0.36 kernel, and Slink.  However, I will check my
diald version to make sure it came from stable, and not unstable. 
Thanks.