Re: Segmentation Faults after Cold Boot
> 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.
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