Bug 22538 – tty consoles not responding to most commands

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description REdOG 2003-06-09 22:18:44 UTC]

useing gentoo-ppc-1.4_rc7-kde.iso verified md5 and burned several copys.
On a G4 powerbook 800mhz 512ram 
Im unable to run alot of commands mostly binarys, upon issueing a command the 
controling terminal(have only tryed on local console) will hang. offending 
commands are not listed in ps entrys and they are also not escapeable with a 
ctrl-c ctrl-d. kill -9 -1 resets all tty's well enough to try again. After 
extended sessions shell commands sometime become quite bothersome also, tab 
completion attempts will hang as well. I am able to procede just fine with 
gentoo-ppc-1.4_rc6-120403.iso

[Comment 1 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2003-06-14 04:30:36 UTC]

what commands are you talking about?

This could be a kernel problem. (related to the page_alloc.c oops we keep getting)
imho this kernel doesn't work correctly when no swwap is installed. kainz: Are there any newer versions available?

Pieter

[Comment 2 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2003-07-14 14:58:31 UTC]

could you test rc8 or later livecds (rc8 is currently available from http://dev.gentoo.org/~pvdabeel/ppc-livecd/ )
this cd is not X enabled, (main purpose is to test the quality of the kernel on it for future livecd releases)

please reopen when not working

[Comment 3 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2003-10-11 04:48:11 UTC]

closing - bugzilla strangeness