From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 11 23:16:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10679 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 23:16:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10658; Mon, 11 May 1998 23:16:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02483; Tue, 12 May 1998 07:12:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199805120612.HAA02483@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Forrest W. Christian" cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP hard lock in 2.2.6 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 May 1998 18:06:50 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 07:12:47 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I'm having a problem with user-mode ppp causing a hard lockup in 2.2.6. > When the problem occurs, the keyboard is completely dead, and as far as I > can tell the system is completely dead. It's like the kernel is in a > "disable interrupts, jump to myself" infinite loop. This usually happens > before ppp even gets a chance to dial. > > I'm about ready to dig out the debugging tools here, but before I went > through all of that trouble, I wanted to make sure that this wasn't a > known problem which has been fixed. > > Any Ideas? > > Please CC me with any responses. Thanks. It's not a problem I've seen. It's *very* unlikely that ppp is wedging the whole machine :-/ but possible I guess.... > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com > Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message