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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!fenris!jwinstea
  3. From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
  4. Subject: Re: sock_init hangs on 0.97pl2
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep8.182303.18743@muddcs.claremont.edu>
  6. Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
  7. Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
  8. References: <1992Sep8.181121.25349@tc.cornell.edu>
  9. Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:23:03 GMT
  10. Lines: 19
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Sep8.181121.25349@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
  13. >About 3 times out of 5, upon bootup on 0.97pl2, sock_init (when 
  14. >intializing the AF_UNIX sockets; I haven't installed the tcpip patches)
  15. >hangs the system and I have to reboot. This usually happens about
  16. >15 seconds after sock_init's message appears on the screen; possibly
  17. >whatever comes after sock_init (the next message to be displayed if it
  18. >_doesn't_ hang is the partition table) is what's actually hanging. 
  19. >Has anyone had similar problems? Should we look at this part of the code
  20. >to make sure that nothing's wrong with it?
  21.  
  22. It sounds like it's the SCSI-detection code that's hanging up.  You
  23. might want to try recompiling your kernel with the SCSI stuff
  24. removed.  If you've already done that, try it the other way around.
  25. Upgrading might also help, but I have no idea why...
  26. -- 
  27.                                     +      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
  28.                                     |      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
  29.                                     |   jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
  30.                                     + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
  31.