From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GaL9S-0003wq-Lv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:48:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9INkrYk024542; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:46:53 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9INkrpX005155 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:46:53 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so1205718nfa for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:46:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=q/RUZktBFD8lmGmxD826P1xOZWUfpnj4vP6P7dGa3UvfyEpO5zyZkpXeGKEXHU3E3nilisqFEYb1sXeUCWPSU4NK6o2ddw7c7IEJ4gucDykwk4GrHlMoW7+p24eOJ3UcbCnm0d5L9Ejdk1uK+2d8zxXc4Pm6t4RgQxYKdPEOEvA= Received: by 10.78.203.15 with SMTP id a15mr1787474hug; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.131.13 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7c08b4dd0610181646g569f14f0vfb5b20ccf0d1516c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:46:50 -0400 From: "Peter Davoust" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] how to track down strange bug In-Reply-To: <4536AB1E.80004@gmx.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <4536AB1E.80004@gmx.at> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9INkrpX005155 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9INkrZd024542 X-Archives-Salt: 97f3f7f7-4c95-41b6-893b-5b954443e3a1 X-Archives-Hash: 3ed28fb1277155f4a1a50e2e87986bdb As in nothing at all in the log file, or nothing unusual in the log file? Also, how much Ram do you have? Could you try doing ps aux and then copying the 50MB and watching what proceses come up when it crashes? Maybe it's an X issue, because it seems like the gui freezes but the rest doesn't. Does the file eventually copy all the way? Just sort of thinking out loud there. -Peter On 10/18/06, Florian D. wrote: > Hi, > I have been hitting by a bug for ages, which I want to get rid of > eventually ;) > > It is not possible for me to watch TV via xawtv, while doing IO > intensive tasks in the background. In the majority of cases, it > suffices to copy a, say, 50MB file from my USB-stick to the harddisk > to freeze my amd64 machine (but, funny enough, the sound is playing > further on). > > Since I suppose that people don=B4t have any clue what its going on > here, I just want to ask, what is the best way to debug this? There is > nothing in the log file. > > TIA > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > --=20 gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list