Could it be your swapspace being corrupted? Try turning it off. What is your kernel version? I had similar problems with stuck processes, on a new compile of a 2.4.20, which had been running perfectly fine, before I compiled in speakup 1.5, and some other drivers. The system was otherwise fine, and if I ran processes under strace (strace -o /dev/null process), I had no problems. We never did figure that problem out. Luke On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. > > Well, the subject says it all. When running applications on my play > box, they all end up getting segmentation faults. If they don't get > segmentation faults, they apparently aren't executing, since the > system sits there forever, and ever. Sometimes, I can do a ctrl+c or a > ctrl+z, but other times I can't. The same thing happens when I try to > halt the box. It says broadcasting message from root ... and the > system is going down for system halt now ..., but that's it, the box > just sits there with no activity. Sometimes when I hit ctrl+c, I get > shutdown canceled, other times I don't get anything. > > I've also noticed that if I am logged in via ssh, and try to login via > ssh again to have 2 logins going, the client connects, I get the > welcome message,I'm told when my last login was, and that I have no > mail, and then the second connection is just dropped. > > Obviously, I've got a hardware problem. However, is it the ram, or is > it the cpu? I am leaning towards saying that it's the cpu at this > point, but am open to other educated opinions. > Thanks in advance. > > Greg > > >
