Hi Mathew! On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Mathew Johnston wrote:
> I have a potato box that is running samba, mysql, apache, proftpd, > Xwindows (but connects to another box to run all of its apps) and is a > masq firewall. Last night it froze up while running a screensaver > remotely (on the other xwindows box, over the lan). No messages in > syslog. I'd like to stop this from happening again. Any ideas as to > how to track downt he offending software? Do you have pets? No, this is not a joke. ------------CUT----------- From: Alex Buell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Cause of mysterious lock-ups with 2.2.x kernels discovered! Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, I wish to share with you all my latest discovery which I just made a few minutes ago, but I must explain the background first. For quite a while, since I returned from the States in Feb, I had been the victim of a recurring but random lock-ups with Linux in all incarnations of the 2.2.x series kernels, and have in fact reported several. The strange thing was that I never had these lock-ups in the States. All that was a mystery until tonight. I had left the keyboard for a short period of time, and returned to find one of my six cats SLEEPING on the keyboard! I shooed the cat away and sat down to continue my editing. I was completely thunderstruck when I realised that the machine was locked up tighter than a chastity belt on a virgin, X11 was still on the display, just completely frozen. Then a light went on in my tiny brain, somehow my cats must have discovered quite by accident the best way to annoy me; that is, pressing keys at random until the reboot/sync/meminfo key sequences (i.e alt-r, alt-s I think) kicks in and machine locks up as a result. I propose four solutions to this problem. 1. Keep cats out of room. 2. Disable the keyboard with a sequence of key-presses, and re-enable by pressing a different sequence of key-presses. Of course, it should be cat-proof. 3. Unplug the keyboard. 4. Put cat-repellent on keyboard. I hope this helps those of you with cats in the house and experiencing strange happenings. Cheers, Alex -- Legalise cannabis today! http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk ------------CUT----------- HTH yours, peter -- PGP encrypted messages preferred. http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ [please CC me on lists]
