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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!!! Thanks Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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