Re: Console hang current

[Peter Valchev <pvalchev@home.com>]

Stein Boerge Sylvarnes <Stein.Sylvarnes@student.uib.no> 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.
[..]

You're probably running a custom kernel with i586 or i686 CPU classes
only, and there was a compiler bug which caused this (optimization flag
passed somewhere around the tree).  It is fixed, so you can update again,
or just use GENERIC kernel (or add the other CPU classes to your custom
one).