H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
On Thursday 27 October 2005 17:29, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
Rare, but it can happen.
I remember getting a SunOS kernel panic once, in 1989. It was kind of
freaky. Never seen it again on any *nix since.
Yep, it happens ..... But who'd program something to come up with such advice
when encountering errors? Doesn't sound normal *nix to me .... so I'm
interested as to what provoked it.
If I get kernel panics everything freezes and I have to pull the plug to
reboot.
When you run into memory paging table errors, you really do need to
reboot. There isn't any other way to fix it. The problem is that you
don't know what memory belongs to what process, so you really need to
stop ALL processes, and restart them. A reboot is really the only way to
do it. The thing is, you should never run into this error, becaue the
kernel is the only thing that is susposed to be ablt to modify the
table. So you have ether run into a kernel bug, a hardware problem, or
something else really strange changed the value in a few memory
locations. It isn't bad enough to cause a kernel panic - you can
probably safely reboot the system normally. But it is bad enough that a
reboot is needed.
Mikkel
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