> Today my landlord needed to do some more work, so the > power was shut off again. A second time, the machine > kernel paniced on the first boot, and remained stable > after a reboot. I was curious about this and decided > to unplug the machine. Any time the machine was left > without power for say, 10-20 minutes, a cold boot > would produce a kernel panic. However, one could do a > soft reboot as many times as he/she pleased, with no > problems, or shut it down for 5 minutes or so with no > problems. Any time the machine remained without power > for an extended period of time, the following cold > boot would result in random segmentation faults and > eventually a kernel panic.
Smells a lot like a HW failure to me ... something that doesn't quite get in place unless it's warm ... Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
