Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:30:53 +0000 | From | Ben Aitchison <> | Subject | Re: Kernel panic in 2.1.127: login respawns |
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On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 07:14:39AM +0000, aaronl@vitelus.com wrote: > A friend and I were playing with a 486SX running 2.1.127 (UP) and ran > accross a deadly trick. We were entertaining ourselves by respawning the > login program as fast as the machine could handle: holding down ^D at the > login prompt. Originally, we did this for a few seconds on tty1 untill > init would not allow it to respawn for 5 minutes becuase of its rapid > reexcecution. We didn't let this ruin our so-called fun and switched to VC > 2. We did this for every single virtual console except for three (which we > accidentally skipped). We switched back to three and held down ^D. Uh, > dang. Kernel panic. It printed a stack trace (about a paragraph).
(just finished rebooting)
I get the same thing here.
2.1.129 on a Cyrix 5x86-100 with 24 megs of ram.
It took me four virtual consoles I think it was.
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