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From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: Re: Question about Hanging Kernel
Message-ID: <1993Jun15.132852.18348@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
References: <1vjmgr$50t@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 13:28:52 GMT
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From article <1vjmgr$50t@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu>, by altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang):
> Hi. I've got some more information...It has happened two or three times in
> the last 2 days where I've su'ed and when entering the passwd, it'll hang. If
> I ping the machine, It'll respond as alive. If I telnet to it, it will say
> connection established, then just sit there. This is getting annoying, I go
> running in to reboot my machine, and then by the time I walk home, I will
> login and the first command will hang it.
> thanx...alex...
Mine tends to hang when cd'ing after su'ing. I goes like this:
% su bin
Password: <A very important, toptoptop secret phrase>
erato# cd /usr/local/src
[Hard disk light on, characters echo but no response, gotta reboot]
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John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
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