On May 11,  8:55am, "Ulrich Windl" wrote:
} Subject: 2.2.5: INIT: PANIC: segmantation violation! giving up..
} Hello,
} 
} I have a real problem with Linux-2.2.5: For some reason that is not 
} hardware, init dies. This wouldn't be as bad if
} 
} 1) A message would go to syslog (and not to console only)
} 
} 2) The kernel would really panic
} 
} 3) The kernel would not silently fille the process table and refuse   
}    to start any more processes.

[ ... ]

A trick I use might possibly help in situations like this.  I have
ctrl-alt-del mapped to start a single-user-style shell, rather than
going to shutdown.  My inittab contains:

# In our case, CTRL-ALT-DEL was pressed.
#
rb::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/sulogin /dev/console

You can even resume operation with this after "halt".

-- 
B. D. Elliott   bde@nwlink.com   (Seattle)

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