Re: [gentoo-amd64] Gentoo crashing?

[Peter Davoust]

I'll try that. Actually, I haven't had any problems with locking up
recently. I've got kde running and I can emerge all I want. Thank you
all for the help.

-Peter

On 5/19/07, Isidore Ducasse <ducasse.isidore@×××××.com> wrote:
> le Wed, 16 May 2007 01:03:42 +0200
> "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> a écrit:
> > >
> > > Yes, I use nvidia-drivers and udev keeps loading the nvidiafb LKM,
> >
> > why are you building the nvidiafb crap in the first place?
> >
> >
>
> As far as I remember, I used the default genkernel. Now in fact, and though stated differently on NVIDIA_HOWTO , nvidia LKM works fine here even with nvidiafb loaded. It's just that I have no framebuffer functionality.
>
>
> To stick to the subject: (Why was his gentoo crashing all of a sudden?) this "Kernel hacking" option seems to be enabled by default by genkernel. It caused my brother's dual core machine to turn into a black screen under X:
>
>  Linux Kernel v2.6.20-gentoo-r8 Configuration
>  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>   ┌────────────────────────── Detect Soft Lockups
> ──────────────────────────┐ │
> CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP:
> Say Y here to enable the kernel to detect "soft lockups",
> which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
> mode for more than 10 seconds, without giving other tasks a
> chance to run.                                                          │
>
> When a soft-lockup is detected, the kernel will print the current stack trace (which you should report), but the system will stay locked up. This feature has negligible overhead.
>
>
> (Note that "hard lockups" are separate type of bugs that can be detected via the NMI-watchdog, on platforms that support it.)
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