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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:28:02 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        conrads@cox.net
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: It appears I was mistaken (re: lockups) 
Message-ID:  <20040719202802.8E8C35D08@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:16:20 CDT." <XFMail.20040719151620.conrads@cox.net> 

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> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:16:20 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
> 
> 
> On 18-Jul-2004 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > I had posted several weeks ago about constant hard lockups of my
> > amd64 box.  At first, I attributed the problem to GNOME, then to my
> > kernel config, but now it appears to me that the problem really lies
> > with Mozilla/Firefox.
> 
> Well, another theory bites the dust.  I tried running GNOME yesterday,
> never touched Mozilla or Firefox, and the system locked up while doing
> some file management chores in Nautilus.
> 
> It must be something low-level in GNOME, some shared library, probably,
> but I have yet to track it down.

I have lost track of the full thread and this mail list is not tracked
by google :-(, so this may have been ruled out. Are you sure that it's
not the preemption problem that is biting you? This applies to CURRENT
systems only, so may not be applicable to what you are seeing, the
symptoms are a match.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634



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