> Thanks to a spring snow storm, my Sparc 20 lost power this > morning, crashing rather hard it appears. On reboot, everything seemed > fine, the disks checked as expected, but nothing out of the ordinary was > reported... Then came the line 'chmod 666 /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]' in > /etc/rcS.d/S55bootmisc.sh and the kernel crashed with an error that it was > unable to deference a NULL pointer, and that chmod() had caused an 'Oops' > to occur. There was some additional pointer information and such (like a > face with its tongue stuck out at me :), but it was a solid kernel crash, > and quite repeatable at that.
The information after the face is important :) That and the System.map is required to debug this sort of thing. Anton
