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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:11:46 -0000
From:      paul@originative.co.uk
To:        perry@zso.dec.com, asmodai@wxs.nl
Cc:        arg@arg1.demon.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Subject:   RE: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system 
Message-ID:  <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FDDC@OCTOPUS>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reginald S. Perry [mailto:perry@zso.dec.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 7:35 AM
> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
> Cc: Andrew Gordon; current@FreeBSD.ORG; Matthew Dillon
> Subject: Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system 
> 
> 
> I have been having these X lockups with the linux netscape 4.5
> running. I may have exacerbated it when I installed the linux
> realplayer and macromedia flash plugins. 
> 
> I would like to have a methodology to help debug this, but I 
> have just 
> this one system to use as the debug system. I do also have a vt220
> which I could set up if that would help.
> 
> The key here is that for me it locks the system up completely. I
> cannot telnet in remotely and the ctrl-alt-esc key sequence does not
> work so its unclear to me how to debug this. Tell me what I 
> would need 
> to help debug it, and I will try to be of some help. Ill attach my
> dmesg output.
> 

I've had the problem recently and in the past where the system locks up
completely and a lot of the time the speaker starts a continuous beep.
Locks up solid, requires a power-cycle.

It's not a new problem, it used to happen a lot on my dual processor box
and I've had it happen a few time this week on my single processor dev
box. The hardware is very different on both boxes and compared to yours
so the cause must be somewhere fairly generic.

I *think* Netscape was in use every time but I can't see how netscape
itself can be directly responsible for a system lockup, it must be
tickling some interrupt problem.

Paul.

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