Re: Hard Lockups can't happen (can they?)

From: Alan Chandler (alan_at_chandlerfamily.org.uk)
Date: 03/27/05

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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:41:45 +0100

    On Sunday 27 March 2005 17:09, Paul Fraser wrote:
    > Not if the fan were stopped entirely.
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
    >
    > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 11:46 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
    ...
    > > Make sure you didn't leave a cable touching the CPU fan. I did this
    > > once during an upgrade and the consequent overheating caused lockups.
    >
    > Wouldn't you hear buzzing noise from the fan slapping the cable?

    Thanks for the idea's guys BUT

    The computer runs for hours (all yesterday afternoon, evening and through the
    night) without problems yet...

    ...hangs solid within seconds of using konqueror (from KDE 3.4 from
    experimental).

    So IT COULD BE a very specific hardware fault, but ... I can still browse
    perfectly happily for hours with Firefox.

    and WHY can a userland application such as konqueror crash the operating
    system. (and more importantly HOW do I put some debug in to find out what is
    doing it). 

    -- 
Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
 then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi
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