Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:04:12 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recurring freeze with 2.1.5 system Message-ID: <Mutt.19970224230412.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199702240555.VAA01312@lightside.com>; from Jake Hamby on Feb 23, 1997 21:55:23 -0800 References: <199702240555.VAA01312@lightside.com>
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As Jake Hamby wrote: > There's a 486 system at my Internet provider that he's set up as a "geek > box" for people to hack on. It's a fairly lame configuration (486DX/4 > 100MHz, 8MB RAM, IDE drives, NE2000 card). Anyway, it has a recurring > problem where it will only answer pings. Logins, either remote or from the > console, will hang (telnet will connect, but not prompt for username), and > the system must be forcibly rebooted. Configure DDB, and see if it reacts to the DDB hotkey. I would assume this, since interrupts are obviously working. Inside DDB, you even have a `ps' command you could use to examine the process status. If you're using a serial console, don't forget the option BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. You can then use a BREAK condition on the serial line as the DDB hotkey. (BREAK is an out-of-band signal, you can generate it in Kermit by ^\B, or in cu by ~b.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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