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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!cairo!jason From: jason@cairo.anu.edu.au (jason andrade) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD bug, carried over from NetBSD 0.8, hanging machine. (sigh) Date: 25 Sep 93 15:53:36 GMT Organization: Australian National University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <jason.748972416@cairo> References: <1993Sep22.125520.20838@magic.tap.csiro.au> <CDs4GH.EBw@bi-link.owl.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.16 Keywords: netbsd,bug,hanging,dead.machine martin@bi-link.owl.de (Martin Husemann) writes: >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 >-- >"And I think infinity is a little beyound me" Larry Wall the interesting thing is that so far the machine has crashed 3 times in 'vi' (elvis?) or exiting elvis -jason