Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:02:23 +0100 | | From | Dave Bentham <> | | Subject | Re: kernel 2.4.21 crash |
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:41:32 -0500 Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:48:33PM +0100, dave.bentham@ntlworld.com > wrote: > > Hello > > > > But there seems to be a major failure when the computer just stops > > with no warning. Two scenarios that seem to repeat it include > > starting Loki's Heretic2 off, and mounting the CDRW drive via > > WindowMaker dock app. I cannot do anything when this happens; can't > > hotkey out of X, can't telnet to it from my other networked PC. I > > have to power down and back up. > > There was something like this posted on the list a few days ago. > Someone said that it has to do with IDE-SCSI timing or what not. That > is, try if you can reproduce it without the ide-scsi driver in the > kernel..
You may be right - I turned off SCSI support in the kernel and removed the'hdd=ide-scsi' boot appendage and I could mount the CDRW ok.
I'll try and find the history of this known bug.
> > > It seems to be a few seconds after the trigger that the lock up > > occurs, and also it starts flashing the keyboard Caps Lock and > > Scroll Lock LEDs in step at about 1 Hz. I'm sure its trying to tell > > me something... > > That means the kernel detected something evil (oops caused by null > pointer access, etc...). Sicne the leds are still flashing, at least > the kernel is not totally dead. :) >
It may as well be totally dead!!!
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