New server, installed 4.11-RELEASE ... hangs ...

[Igor Pokrovsky]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:49:09AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> Just built a new Dual-Xeon server, Intel motherboard ... put 4.11-RELEASE 
> onto it, and I'm getting an odd behaviour that I'm wondering if anyone can 
> give me a suggestion on where to look / investigate ...
> 
> Mainly, it looks like after a period of time (not very long), commands 
> just stop running ...
> 
> For instance, I'm running cvsup to update my source tree (hoping that its 
> just a bad kernel) and on another console, I login and do a 'ps aux', 
> which  just hangs there ... on a third console, I can login and still do a 
> df at the same time as that ps is hanging, but if I then do a ps, that 
> console hangs ... if I then go to the 4th console, it hangs while logging 
> in ...
> 
> I can get to a DDB prompt, but not sure what I can provide from there that 
> may be useful ...
> 
> Thoughts?

I've seen such behaviour myself some time ago and IIRC I removed acpica from
kernel. Worth a try I think...

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