Hi Russ, Thanks for your thoroughness. As I recall, I tested on another computer also running lenny and did not observe the problem. I also was able to determine that the same thing happened doing scp (non-kerberized), so it clearly isn't ftp-specific. Then I found that for whatever reason, AFS works fine on the affected computer, so that was my workaround.
I agree with you that it seems to be a hardware problem, especially since evidently no one else has seen this problem. It's possible that it's an interaction of a hardware problem and kernel, but in any case, it's not worth the time to diagnose, so go ahead and close the report. Liam On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Liam, > > Back in November, you reported crashes when FTPing large files (or using > scp) on your system. I wanted to check with you to see if you ever found > what was causing this. > > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > >> The hard hang of the system with no long messages or console output does >> imply to me something going wrong in either the hardware or the kernel. >> Unfortunately, there are a lot of candidates, disk or some weirdness >> with the network card or drivers being the main candidates. >> >> I don't know how to diagnose further either. :/ > > I suspect that given you're seeing hard hangs of the system, there was > some sort of hardware problem, but I'm not sure. The bug is still open > against the krb5 package in Debian, but my guess is that this isn't a > problem with that package and should be closed. However, I didn't want to > do that without checking with you first. > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
