From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.123]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AJgX3-0004Aw-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:58:41 -0500 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AJgWz-0004kA-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:58:37 -0800 Received: (qmail 7467 invoked by uid 1023); 11 Nov 2003 21:58:41 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:58:41 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20031111215841.GA6675@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20031110002117.GA1222@romuald.net.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: my play box has turned into a paper weight X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:58:41 -0000 Actually, I discovered something new yesterday. Before, I was doing everything on that box via ssh, since I'll take the double talk pc's speech over that of the braille blazer's any day. Anyway, I decided to actually get logged into the box itself on a real console, to see if anything would be different. Something did turn out to be different. Where during the ssh sessions programs just gave me segmentation faults, and did all these weird things, when I was on a real console, I got a kernel oops, and then the weird stuff after every kernel oops. I'm running on kernel 2.4.22 on that box now. Since I have not had good experiences with kernel 2.4.22 so far on any of my other boxes, I'm going to compile a 2.4.21 kernel for that machine on another machine, and see if that makes a difference. If it does, I'll just attribute the weird behavior to 2.4.22. If it doesn't make a difference, then I'll still blame my hardware. I'll report back with my findings of course. Greg On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:08:26AM -0600, Luke Davis wrote: > Could it be your swapspace being corrupted? Try turning it off. > > What is your kernel version? > > I had similar problems with stuck processes, on a new compile of a 2.4.20, > which had been running perfectly fine, before I compiled in speakup 1.5, > and some other drivers. The system was otherwise fine, and if I ran > processes under strace (strace -o /dev/null process), I had no problems. > We never did figure that problem out. > > Luke > > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org