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Date:      Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:47:12 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        adf@fl.net.au (Andrew Foster)
Subject:   Re: Locks.
Message-ID:  <199603152047.VAA02384@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960316054937.00af3a00@mail.fl.net.au> from "Andrew Foster" at Mar 15, 96 07:49:37 pm

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As Andrew Foster wrote:

> This machine will either randomly reboot or lock up.  When it locks I can
> switch vty's but not login (no password comes up), I can open some ports
> that inetd isn't control of, but I can't telnet in or anything.

This usually means the processes aren't context-switching anymore.  It
is often related to disk hangs.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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