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Re: strange error message



on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:31:13PM +0100, Stephan Kulka (e9626471@student.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
> Yesterday I got this message: VM: can't open kpswap or something like
> that. 

Possibly a kernel problem.  It would help to know what specific kernel
version and configuration you're running.

> I must admit that I am not quite sure about the exact message, because
> I switched off the computer ( I hope that was a good idea)

Probably not if you just hit the power switch, though you usually can
get away with it.  Better to run 'shutdown -h' or give a
three-fingered-salute on console, if configured for it (see
/etc/inittab).

> and at the moment I have no access to this machine.  It happened, when
> I started ssh, but persisted, even after quitting the connection. ssh
> is working fine normally, so I don't really believe it is a ssh issue.
> What is going on?? Any ideas?

I'd start checking list archives, kernel lists, Google, and/or Deja at
this point.

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