Interestingly, I had the system hang on me 5 times today. I then stopped cron and anacron, and just to make sure I individually ran all the jobs that anacron might have tried to run (/etc/cron.*/*) without any trouble. cron and anacron are still stopped, and I haven't hung since. I'll try leaving it on overnight tonight and see what happens. I did recompile the kernel but haven't tried booting it yet, because the system hasn't hung for a while. Oh, incidentally (in case this helps) I have Athlons, not Pentiums, so this doesn't look to be CPU specific. Watch this space for further updates... :) P. On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 11:10, WipeOut wrote: > Paul Furness wrote: > > >Hello. > > > >Yeah, I've got this happening, and I think it's something to do with > >cron or similar. I'm running a workstation and if I leave it on > >overnight, it is always locked up in the morning. But it also happens > >sometimes during the day, while I'm working on it, and the important > >thing I noticed is that when the desktop freezes, the clock always reads > >zero seconds - eg today it locked hard at 10:49:00. This suggests a > >scheduler (like cron) causing the problem. > > > >I'm not quite clear on why it should only affect the smp, though. I'm > >gonna try recompiling the kernel (minimising what I don't need) and see > >if that makes any difference. > > > >It might also be instructive to stop cron for 24 hours and see if the > >thing still hangs. > > > > > >Paul. > > > > > > > > > Please let us know what the outcome of your tests is.. then maybe we can > feed back to the dev team and get it fixed in an updated kernel.. > > Later.. > >
