Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-16 Thread Russell King
Dennis writes: > >Not every case causes a panic either. This week, I had an instance of > >an i686 box lock solid with a DFE-530TX net card. Rebooting/power > >cycling it didn't recover it (despite it working for the past month > >without any problems). It only started working again after I mov

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-16 Thread Dennis
> >Not every case causes a panic either. This week, I had an instance of >an i686 box lock solid with a DFE-530TX net card. Rebooting/power >cycling it didn't recover it (despite it working for the past month >without any problems). It only started working again after I moved >it into a differ

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-16 Thread Russell King
Rogier Wolff wrote: > Dennis wrote: > > network card driver) and leave the system running make linux unusable in > > unattended environments as the machine is functionally dead. > > Which doesn't help in this case, as your network card COULD be dead, > while the system simply hasn't crashed

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-15 Thread David Feuer
At 05:30 PM 11/15/2000 +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > network card driver) and leave the system running make linux unusable in > > unattended environments as the machine is functionally dead. > >Which doesn't help in this case, as your network card COULD be dead, >while the system simply hasn't c

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
Dennis wrote: > At 02:53 AM 11/15/2000, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > >Shouldn't the system be "halted" after an "Aiee, killing interrupt > >handler"? > > > > This brings another question. Has there been any work done to force linux > to reboot on all panics? Linux's propensity to crash drivers (say

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-15 Thread Dennis
At 02:53 AM 11/15/2000, Rogier Wolff wrote: >Shouldn't the system be "halted" after an "Aiee, killing interrupt >handler"? > This brings another question. Has there been any work done to force linux to reboot on all panics? Linux's propensity to crash drivers (say the network card driver) and

2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-14 Thread Rogier Wolff
Shouldn't the system be "halted" after an "Aiee, killing interrupt handler"? Modem status change from 0x63 to 0xf3 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0629 printing eip: c4854fcc *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010002 eax: