Re: Libthr stable enough for testing

From: Glenn Johnson (glennpj_at_charter.net)
Date: 05/30/03

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    Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 18:00:20 -0500
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>

    On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:54:22PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:

    > On Thu, 29 May 2003, Glenn Johnson wrote:
    >
    > > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:20:02AM -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote:
    > >
    > > > On Thu, 29 May 2003 00:35:32 -0500 Dan Nelson
    > > > <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > > The real problem is in the kernel, though. A userland non-root
    > > > > process should not be able to hard lock the system. One of the
    > > > > threads people will probably have to get an SMP machine to be
    > > > > able to debug it.
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > Upon first reading it I had assumed he meant gnome locked up. Can
    > > > you confirm this Glenn? Is the machine itself locked solid (no
    > > > ping, no ssh, not vtys, etc)? However, even if that is the case a
    > > > bug in the kernel does not preclude a bug in libthr.
    > >
    > > The machine locks up solid. I can not do anything with it except
    > > hit the reset button. I mentioned gnome because gnome will trigger
    > > the lock up. I would imagine I would see the same thing with kde
    > > however.
    >
    > what about kernel debugger?

    I do not have the debugger enabled on the SMP box. I can set that up
    but probably not until next week. Will the debugger work if the machine
    locks up? 

    -- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj@charter.net
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