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...
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Rachel Greenham
Epinet Communications plc
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