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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:09:15 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@sch.bme.hu>
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Subject: Re: very strange (semi-)lockups in 2.4.5
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Hi!

> I'm having ~2 lockups a day. The following happens:
>  If I was under X, i only can use the magic-key, but no other keyboard (eg
> numlock) or mouse response, the screen freezes, processes stop.
>  If i was using textmode:
>   numlock still works
>   cursor blinks
>   processess stop (eg, gpm doesn't work, outputs freeze)
>   i can still switch vt's.
>   BUT, i can only type into a few vt's, last time into 3,5,6,7,8, but not
> into 1,2 or 4!
> 
> I cannot give you any traces, as i dont have any.
> 
> Also note that magic-key works, and it says that it umounts filesystems if
> i press magic-u, but next time at mount i see that reiserfs is replaying
> transactions.

I've seen something very similar yesterday, 2.4.5, PII/300, 64MB. 
MAGIC-s,u,b and ext2 came up clean.

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