On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 11:28:22PM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> So, I seem to have the same problem Ignatios reported a few days ago;
> _both_ of my Sharks hang hard (no response to any DDB commands) some
> random amount of time after boot (on the order of 5-15 minutes, but
> once I had it happen during a fsck while booting).
> 
> A little more digging seems to have uncovered the culprit; I finally
> figured out this didn't happen on the SHARK kernel, but it happened
> on my custom kernel.  It seems that the NTP option (the kernel
> phase/frequency locked loop) causes a random hang, _even_ if you're
> not running xntpd.
> 
> Ignatios, do you have "options NTP" in your custom kernels?

No, I have not.

Note that the 1.4 SHARK kernel also hangs for me.

	-is

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