Keyboard & mouse freeze

[Bill Caroselli]

I re-booted a server system (into etxt mode) then went into Photon.
I loaded a pterm sesion and used it. All was working well.

I left the room and came back and the keyboared and mouse were frozen.
I was still in the pterm and characters were not showing up on the
screen. I tried to exit Photon <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Shift>+<BackSpace> and
nothing happened.

I was able to access the server system from another system. I have
the output from a pidin command. But then I noticed that there was
an io-graphics.core dump in the /var/dumps directory. I was going to
send it as an attachment to this messaeg but it is 112 MB in size. ;~}

What other information would be useful to diagnose what caused this
problem?

I am running 6.2.1B PE and I have since rebooted.

[David Gibbs]

Bill Caroselli <qtps@earthlink.net> wrote:

I was able to access the server system from another system. I have
the output from a pidin command. But then I noticed that there was
an io-graphics.core dump in the /var/dumps directory. I was going to
send it as an attachment to this messaeg but it is 112 MB in size. ;~}

What other information would be useful to diagnose what caused this
problem?

If you still have the core file, maybe the output from coreinfo
applied to the core file?

-David
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[Bill Caroselli]

David Gibbs <dagibbs@qnx.com> wrote:
DG > Bill Caroselli <qtps@earthlink.net> wrote:

I was able to access the server system from another system. I have
the output from a pidin command. But then I noticed that there was
an io-graphics.core dump in the /var/dumps directory. I was going to
send it as an attachment to this messaeg but it is 112 MB in size. ;~}

What other information would be useful to diagnose what caused this
problem?

DG > If you still have the core file, maybe the output from coreinfo
DG > applied to the core file?

Sure. Here.

# coreinfo io-graphics.core
io-graphics.core:
processor=X86 num_cpus=1
cpu 1 cpu=1586 name=Intel ?86 F15M2S7 speed=2387
flags=0xc0003fff FPU MMU CPUID RDTSC INVLPG WP BSWAP MMX CMOV PSE PGE MTRR SEP SIMD FXSR
cyc/sec=2387197200 tod_adj=1071046920000000000 nsec=1308182817401 inc=999847
boot=1071046920 epoch=1970 intr=0
rate=838095345 scale=-15 load=1193
HOSTNAME="dell" MACHINE="x86pc"
pid=454687 parent=1 child=0 pgrp=454687 sid=1
flags=0x002210 umask=0 base_addr=0x8048000 init_stack=0x8047bd0
ruid=100 euid=0 suid=0 rgid=100 egid=100 sgid=100
ign=0000000000040002 queue=ff00000000000000 pending=0000000000000000
fds=21 threads=3 timers=0 chans=14
thread 1
ip=0xb0329ea5 sp=0x8047ab8 stkbase=0x7fc7000 stksize=528384
state=SIGWAITINFO flags=80000000 last_cpu=1 timeout=00000000
pri=12 realpri=12 policy=RR
thread 2
ip=0xb0329281 sp=0x7fc6900 stkbase=0x7fa6000 stksize=135168
state=RECEIVE flags=84020000 last_cpu=1 timeout=00000000
pri=10 realpri=10 policy=RR
blocked_chid=1
thread 3 SIGNALLED-SIGSEGV code=1 MAPERR refaddr=d6d9ff8 fltno=11
ip=0xb8202f55 sp=0x7fa5db4 stkbase=0x7f85000 stksize=135168
state=STOPPED flags=84020000 last_cpu=1 timeout=00000000
pri=12 realpri=12 policy=RR

[Bill Caroselli]

This happened again over the weekend. When I came in this morning the
screen was frozen. I was able to telnet in from another node and I saw
that photon was not running. So I simply ran 'ph' and the system
sprung back to life. It's nice to know tha there is a semi-graceful
way to restore without rebooting. This is a server system and all of
the server processes seem to continue to function normally. it's just
photon (io-graphics) that's crashing.

Here is the new coreinfo just in case there is any more useful
information in it. The .core file is dated Dec 13 (Sat) 14:14 PM CST.

BTW, the only thing that has been going on on this system that's
different from before is that I've been configuring Apache from the 3rd
party CD. But I really don't see how that can kill io-graphics.

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io-graphics.core:
processor=X86 num_cpus=1
cpu 1 cpu=1586 name=Intel ?86 F15M2S7 speed=2392
flags=0xc0003fff FPU MMU CPUID RDTSC INVLPG WP BSWAP MMX CMOV PSE PGE MTRR SEP SIMD FXSR
cyc/sec=2387168400 tod_adj=1071052756000000000 nsec=279282802192533 inc=999847
boot=1071052756 epoch=1970 intr=0
rate=838095345 scale=-15 load=1193
HOSTNAME="dell" MACHINE="x86pc"
pid=479263 parent=1 child=0 pgrp=479263 sid=1
flags=0x002210 umask=0 base_addr=0x8048000 init_stack=0x8047ab4
ruid=0 euid=0 suid=0 rgid=0 egid=0 sgid=0
ign=0000000000040002 queue=ff00000000000000 pending=0000000000000000
fds=26 threads=3 timers=0 chans=22
thread 1
ip=0xb0329ea5 sp=0x804799c stkbase=0x7fc7000 stksize=528384
state=SIGWAITINFO flags=80000000 last_cpu=1 timeout=00000000
pri=12 realpri=12 policy=RR
thread 2
ip=0xb0329281 sp=0x7fc6900 stkbase=0x7fa6000 stksize=135168
state=RECEIVE flags=84020000 last_cpu=1 timeout=00000000
pri=10 realpri=10 policy=RR
blocked_chid=1
thread 3 SIGNALLED-SIGSEGV code=1 MAPERR refaddr=bdbeff8 fltno=11
ip=0xb8202f55 sp=0x7fa5db4 stkbase=0x7f85000 stksize=135168
state=STOPPED flags=84020000 last_cpu=1 timeout=00000000
pri=12 realpri=12 policy=RR