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From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de>
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Subject: Re: -current seems to be okay 
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

> >> This is not my experience :-) my machine just locked. I had to
> >> reset. X was running so I did'nt see any error message (and nothing in
> >> /var/log/messages)
> >
> >I'm somewhere in between.  Got LA to 24 with various activities fomr
> >several hours with no ill effect, but got the system to freeze while
> >reading this very message (these things use telepathy?).  Something to do
> >with X or the (PS/2) mouse.  Overall it looks very well, though.
> >
> 
> I'm glad to see that someone else also observed a lockup; I thought it
> was the new isdn4bsd code I was running.
> 
> Same picture. I was running X and the machine just locked up in the
> middle of the night. No activity except that the machine was in the
> process of dialing out to grab mail. Had to push the big red switch.

Since returning to a current current kernel yesterday, I've had the machine 
lock up totally on me once, and several problems with spurious Signal 10 
and 11 crashes during compilations. For the past week or so I was 
running a kernel from late december and had no problems to speak of..

Kris

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