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SubjectRe: Kernel panic in 2.1.127: login respawns
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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