Florian, What is the kernel version? Your symptom seems to remind me the corrupted s0 bug in several syscalls. The bug is fixed around test9 I believe. Check for "save_static_function(sys_sigsuspend);" statement in arch/mips/kernel/signal.c file. If you have it, then you don't have the bug. Jun Florian Lohoff wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:59:19PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > Decoded this is: > > > >>RA; 00000000 Before first symbol > > >>PC; 00000000 Before first symbol > > Trace; 88028344 <sys_nanosleep+190/24c> > > Trace; 8800fa88 <stack_done+1c/38> > > I am trying to track this down a bit more: > > with strace (very old version) > > rt_sigaction(34, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 16) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [], NULL, 16) = 0 > sysmips(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0) = 4149 > sched_yield(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0, 0x2acfad50) = 0 > sysmips(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0) = 4149 > sched_yield(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0, 0x2acfad50) = 0 > sysmips(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0) = 4149 > sched_yield(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0, 0x2acfad50) = 0 > sysmips(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0) = 4149 > sched_yield(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0, 0x2acfad50) = 0 > sysmips(0x7d1, 0x2ac95d24, 0x1, 0) = 4149 > [... repeated this 2 lines ...] > > Every 1000 lines or something: > > nanosleep({0, 2000001}, NULL) = 0 > > But with strace it doesnt crash it seems at least not within 10 Minutes > i let it run ... > > Flo > -- > Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 > Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?