Thanks for the info -- I think I might have a non-xfs problem here.
I recreated the filesystem with ext2 and retested. It locked up just
the same.
eric
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:40:27AM -0600, Eric Whiting wrote:
> > My hardware is Tyan 1854, PIII 866, 3com 905b, 3ware 6200 ide
> > controller, ibm 75G ide disk.
> > My base OS is SUSE 7.1
>
> SuSE 7.1 comes with gcc 2.95; it is a bit safer to compile with an
> egcs 1.1 compiler because there have been problems with that compiler
> version and XFS in the past.
>
> > Questions
> > ---------
> > 1. what debug can I do?
>
> You could compile KDB in if you didn't do it already (it's part of the XFS
> tree); then either don't run X or put a serial console onto the box.
> When it hangs you have good chances that you see an KDB prompt (it could
> be happening already and often looks like a hang in X; if yes your keyboard
> lights should be blinking). Then enter bt and send the results to the list.
> It's easier with an serial console to do that of course.
>
> If you get a hard hang it's much harder to debug. In this case it's also
> likely that you're running into a generic 2.4 kernel problem; contact
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with your hardware configuration and setup.
>
> -Andi
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