[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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.
Netscape is unstable. It does crash every now and then, but I've never
seen it take the system down with it. Nothing a killall netscape can't
get me out of.
No, this time it was *completely* unresponsive to any IO.
--
Rachel Greenham
Epinet Communications plc
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