From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 26 06:14:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08547 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 06:14:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from octopus.originative.co.uk (originat.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08223 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 06:13:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@originative.co.uk) From: paul@originative.co.uk Received: by OCTOPUS with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:11:47 -0000 Message-ID: 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 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:11:46 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message