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From: martin@bi-link.owl.de (Martin Husemann)
Subject: Re: NetBSD bug, carried over from NetBSD 0.8, hanging machine. (sigh)
Keywords: netbsd,bug,hanging,dead.machine
References: <1993Sep22.125520.20838@magic.tap.csiro.au>
Organization: IN - individual network, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, FRG
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 23:41:05 GMT
Message-ID: <CDs4GH.EBw@bi-link.owl.de>
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jason@pest (jason andrade) writes:

>This is a rather frustating bug that seems to have been carried over
>from NetBSD 0.8. The symptons are, while doing or exiting something, the
>machine freezes. New processes can't be started, existing processes continue
>running for some time, the machine can respond to ping, but anything like
>telnet, finger, ftp etc .. is impossible the machine just hangs. Also, the
>harrd drive jsut keeps spinning.

This happened to me too with NetBSD 0.9.


Martin
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