From: Thomas Foerster <puckwork@madz.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: URGENT : System hands on "Freeing unused kernel memory: "
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:23:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010327092358Z131028-406+4343@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
> Does it hang forever ?
Yes :(
> I've noticed that my kernel (2.4.2) stalls for several minutes with the same
> message but suddenly after that the login prompt appears (anything between,
> like configurations and services starting messages, are gone). We've been
> able to track it down to a change we did to /etc/lilo.conf to add support
> for kernel prints to go out to a serial debugger. Before that everything was
> OK, but after we added append="console=tty0 console=ttyS1,38400", this
> problem started. We did notice however that everything that doesn't appear
> on the console does appear on the serial debugger.
We didn't change anything on the system .. it once crashed and now it won't boot
anymore, it always stops at "freeing unused kernel memory ..."
Thomas
next reply other threads:[~2001-03-27 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 9:23 Thomas Foerster [this message]
[not found] <fa.it9nv9v.g08l8a@ifi.uio.no>
2001-03-27 10:07 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-03-27 11:19 ` Jonathan Morton
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2001-03-27 9:12 Hen, Shmulik
2001-03-27 9:06 Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes
2001-03-27 8:40 Thomas Foerster
2001-03-27 6:48 Thomas Foerster
2001-03-27 7:50 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-03-27 14:40 ` Stuart MacDonald
2001-03-27 16:21 ` Alan Cox
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