seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>This has me puzzled. I'm not sure if it is a kernel panic or just X
>freezing since it never leaves anything in the logs. Has anyone had this
>problem? It seems to happen most often when I am listening to mp3's
>although it has happened a few times while it was just sitting there
>doing nothing.
>
>Also I am using BootX. Someone mentioned that the kernel is unreliable
>with BootX. I have not experienced any problems (barring the one that I
>mentioned) with it. What sorts of things are likely to happen? What is
>the upgrade process like to go to one of the newer bootloaders?

yaboot is only useful if you have a newworld mac.

Did you try killing the X server (ctrl-command-option-backspace) ? Does
it work ?


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