On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:53, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the frequent > > lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4 series kernels is due to > > enabling ext3. If I turn this off in fstab the lockups don't occur. Has > > anyone else seen this? > > I had 2 hard lock-up with newly ext3 enabled system. > > I observed some irregularity with X start up so I thought it was new X. > Console where I run startx become white. I have 3dfx on cheep SMP box > (Abit BP6). SMP keep popping up interrupt error, anyway. > > Nice thing is rebooting is much faster with exi3 after hard lock up like > this which requires brutal power-off button action. > > Oh, I use standard kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp
Can it be that it is a kernel version issue? I use 2.2.14 with ext3-patch (self compiled) and don't have any problems at all. In which situations do you get these lockups? Cheers Arne -- /"\ | If you cannot display some \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN | charcters correctly, try to set X AGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS | your mailclient to use Unicode / \ | (UTF-8) encoding.
