Re: Console hang current

[Saad Kadhi <Saad.Kadhi@neurocom.com>]

Stein Boerge Sylvarnes wrote:

> This is a bit dated (from sunday), but I haven't had a chance to report it
> earlier :( . When trying to rebuild the system to a fresh CVS from the
> latest snapshot, the console hung. I could switch vt's and type on the
> command-line, but no new processes woud spawn. SSH login did not work,
> but ping did. I belive someone else had the same problem last week.
> 
> One interesting thing I noticed; I had lynx open, and was entering an url
> when the system hung, and I could not change any text there. (But the
> shell prompt on another vt was "ok")
> 
> I have not had the time to try and reproduce this.
> 
> Has anyone looked into this?
usually it is advised to "make build" in single-user mode. That is, the 
box is somewhat isolated from network & nobody using it. No wonder that 
things don't work as expected when you are changing (almost) everything 
on the system (libs, binaries & such). Can you update to the latest 
snapshot, make build in single-user, reboot + ./MAKEDEV (if needed) and 
see if there are still problems ?

Regards



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