consistent hard lockup with recent kernels

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:41:00PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> I get a very repeatable hard freeze of the system when I use firefox and
> attempt to download a large iso image.  I've been trying to get a livecd
> image from a gentoo.org mirror (needed for something else, I'm a FreeBSD
> fan, honest!!) ;)
> 
> I suppose this is related to the preemption issues, but don't have
> anything to show for it except my dmegs.  I can't access the system at
> all to see why it is happening.

Can you run it in an X session on another host, and be at the console
(for DDB+KDB access)?  Can you start it and switch to the console, for
same reason, before it locks up?

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