Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-16 Thread Russell King
Dennis writes: > >Not every case causes a panic either. This week, I had an instance of > >an i686 box lock solid with a DFE-530TX net card. Rebooting/power > >cycling it didn't recover it (despite it working for the past month > >without any problems). It only started working again after I mov

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-16 Thread Dennis
> >Not every case causes a panic either. This week, I had an instance of >an i686 box lock solid with a DFE-530TX net card. Rebooting/power >cycling it didn't recover it (despite it working for the past month >without any problems). It only started working again after I moved >it into a differ

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-16 Thread Russell King
Rogier Wolff wrote: > Dennis wrote: > > network card driver) and leave the system running make linux unusable in > > unattended environments as the machine is functionally dead. > > Which doesn't help in this case, as your network card COULD be dead, > while the system simply hasn't crashed

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-15 Thread David Feuer
At 05:30 PM 11/15/2000 +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > network card driver) and leave the system running make linux unusable in > > unattended environments as the machine is functionally dead. > >Which doesn't help in this case, as your network card COULD be dead, >while the system simply hasn't c

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
Dennis wrote: > At 02:53 AM 11/15/2000, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > >Shouldn't the system be "halted" after an "Aiee, killing interrupt > >handler"? > > > > This brings another question. Has there been any work done to force linux > to reboot on all panics? Linux's propensity to crash drivers (say

Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee...

2000-11-15 Thread Dennis
At 02:53 AM 11/15/2000, Rogier Wolff wrote: >Shouldn't the system be "halted" after an "Aiee, killing interrupt >handler"? > This brings another question. Has there been any work done to force linux to reboot on all panics? Linux's propensity to crash drivers (say the network card driver) and