In message <20030208003932.5eb24ce1.christianbiere@gmx.de>, Christian Biere wri
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>Hi Steve,
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>Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote:
>> Is anyone else having stability problems with 1.6.1?  My system is now
>> crashing much more often.  Many of the crashes seem to be associated 
>> with either suspend/resume or pcmcia insertion/removal events.
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>could you provide a backtrace of a crash? Otherwise, I'm afraid, this
>thread will go nowhere because there are far too many factors involved.
>Just because 1.6.1 for everyone else, it doesn't mean there isn't a bug
>and suspend/resume isn't really something of interest for servers
>supposed to have huge uptimes, I guess.

I wish I could, but I don't know how to get one.  The machine locks up 
hard, and the only way I know to reset it -- this is a laptop -- is to 
lean on the power button for several seconds.  ctl+alt+esc doesn't work 
at that point, as best I can tell, though since I'm in X I'm not 100% 
certain.  I'm trying to figure out how to make the watchdog timer work 
(assuming, that is, that wdogctl is really part of 1.6.1 and not a 
result of me screwing up my source tree again...)  But I haven't even 
figured out what device to configure into my kernel -- /dev/sysmon 
isn't configured, I'm told, when I do 'envstat -l'.  Nor do I know how 
to do a user-mode "tickle" of the timer.)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)