[Bf-committers] Quicktime & autoconf

[Kester Maddock]

Meino,

Looks like you are in big trouble. :(
A linux machine can lock up in two ways: either it does something it 
shouldn't, and the kernel "panics", or it sits in an endless loop waiting for 
something that never comes ("deadlocks.")  You can tell them apart by the 
keyboard leds, they start flashing when the kernel panics (from kernel 
2.4.20.)  It also prints nice debugging info to the console, which you can't 
see while in X.  Deadlocks are even more difficult to track down and fix.
Kernel debugging should only be attempted if you have a strong sense of 
adventure. :)

Other things to try:
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (Kill X Server)
Ctrl-Alt-F1 (Switch to virtual terminal 1)
Ctrl-Alt-Delete (Switch to runlevel 6 and wait for reboot)
Telnet from a networked machine
A different script
Tuhopuu
A new video card

With the mail server, my (university, have no control over) mail server is 
trying to verify your mail server (solfire.)   If that yours you should 
either tell it to forward all outgoing mail to your isp or identify itself.

(BTW --export-dynamic is already enabled in the NaN makefiles)

Cheers,

Kester


On Thu, 01 May 2003 8:26, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> From: Kester Maddock <Christopher.Maddock.1@uni.massey.ac.nz>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Quicktime & autoconf
> Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 18:36:43 +1200
>
> Hi Kester,
>
>  me again.... :)
>
>  Oops, I did it again... ;)
>
>  will say:
>  I renamed *pyo to *.pyc as you suggested.
>  I start up blender with no object at all (fresh sceen -- previously
>  I had a simple lamp-with-a-sphere-scene to test).
>  Then I split screen to add-new lanc-* (the povanim thingy).
>
>  I pressed ALT-P and....
>  Yes, you are right, no PYTHON-ERROR dialog anymore....
>  ....my box freezes at once.
>
>  It _seems_ (I have no possibility to debug anyting, since my box hard
>  locks) that it is a "eating up the resources"- or "eating up the
>  CPU-power on kernel level"-thing. I pressed SysReq B to reboot right
>  after I noticed that the machine has locked. And it reboots.
>
>  This was not possible previously when I waited longer in hope that my
>  box came back to reality... (false hope).
>
>  Concerning the mail """problem""": I took a closer look to the
>  bounced mail. I am directly sending mail to the recipients without an
>  ISP, which works fine in nearly all cases.... This was sent to me by
>  your ISP:
>
>     This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
>
>     A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
>     recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)
> failed:
>
>       Christopher.Maddock.1@uni.massey.ac.nz
>         SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
> TO:<Christopher.Maddock.1@uni.massey.ac.nz>: host mu-relay1.massey.ac.nz
> [130.123.2.98]: 504 <solfire>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified
> hostname
>
>  Kind regards and
>  keep hacking! :)
>  Meino
>
> > Meino,
> >
> > I grabbed povanim226_11.zip from that link, and it seems to work.
> > I tried it with the tux2d blend file that was included in the zip.  I
> > renamed the .pyo file to .pyc and that fixed having to hit Alt-P twice. 
> > It takes about 6 seconds to export tux2d on my machine (@ 1Ghz)
> >
> > Are you using a CVS version of XFree86?  I understand the Radeon drivers
> > have some bugs that cause lockups and are fixed in CVS.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Kester
> >
> > PS with regards to email, I didn't see anything.  Maybe your isp's spam
> > filter is naive about zip files.  Maybe mine is. :)
>
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