Re: potato froze up
Hi Mathew!
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Mathew Johnston wrote:
> I have a potato box that is running samba, mysql, apache, proftpd,
> Xwindows (but connects to another box to run all of its apps) and is a
> masq firewall. Last night it froze up while running a screensaver
> remotely (on the other xwindows box, over the lan). No messages in
> syslog. I'd like to stop this from happening again. Any ideas as to
> how to track downt he offending software?
Do you have pets? No, this is not a joke.
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From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Cause of mysterious lock-ups with 2.2.x kernels discovered!
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908140118280.7945-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
Gentlemen and Gentlewomen,
I wish to share with you all my latest discovery which I just made a few
minutes ago, but I must explain the background first.
For quite a while, since I returned from the States in Feb, I had been the
victim of a recurring but random lock-ups with Linux in all incarnations
of the 2.2.x series kernels, and have in fact reported several. The
strange thing was that I never had these lock-ups in the States.
All that was a mystery until tonight. I had left the keyboard for a short
period of time, and returned to find one of my six cats SLEEPING on the
keyboard! I shooed the cat away and sat down to continue my editing. I was
completely thunderstruck when I realised that the machine was locked up
tighter than a chastity belt on a virgin, X11 was still on the display,
just completely frozen. Then a light went on in my tiny brain, somehow my
cats must have discovered quite by accident the best way to annoy me; that
is, pressing keys at random until the reboot/sync/meminfo key sequences
(i.e alt-r, alt-s I think) kicks in and machine locks up as a result.
I propose four solutions to this problem.
1. Keep cats out of room.
2. Disable the keyboard with a sequence of key-presses, and re-enable by
pressing a different sequence of key-presses. Of course, it should be
cat-proof.
3. Unplug the keyboard.
4. Put cat-repellent on keyboard.
I hope this helps those of you with cats in the house and experiencing
strange happenings.
Cheers,
Alex
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HTH
yours,
peter
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