On 17-Feb-99 Rachel Greenham wrote:
>
> One of the major nice things about Linux, of course, is that this isn't
> supposed to happen. So I thought the fact that it has was worth
> reporting.
>
> My machine just crashed on me. Total stiff. Pointer froze, A window
> froze unfinished (xmcd), no keyboard activity (including alt-ctrl-Fkey
> to another console), no network activity, no response to ping.
>
> I didn't think I was provoking it very hard. But I thought it might be
> worth mentioning as a possible instability between SuSE 6.0 and kernel
> 2.2.1. Other possibilities include a successful attack, or failing
> hardware.
>
> If anyone wants any details information to help figure out why this
> happened, I'll be glad to co-operate.
>
> Brief snapshot though:
>
> SuSE 6.0 kernel 2.2.1
> Simple vanilla PC hardware: AT SOYO motherboard, AMD K6-2 300MHz, 64Mb
> RAM, 8Gb EIDE,
> Matrox Productiva G100 graphics.
> No sound card.
>
> At the time I was in a KDE 1.0 desktop with nedit, Netscape, xmcd, and a
> couple of kvts running. One of them was doing a big wget in the
> background. Behind the scenes I was running - well, the usual stuff,
> including postgres (not actually doing much), Apache, JRunPro, Samba,
> but only as a client...
>
> --
> Rachel Greenham
> Epinet Communications plc
> -
My first guess for any such instability would be Netscape. Depends of course
on what you were using it for. I've personally locked up KDE by back-stepping
pages while Netscape was loading in a Macromedia Shockwave file. Fortunately I
could kill the process, but I still had to back KDE out by doing a system-wide
init 2.
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