Re: Crash

Lloyd Wood (L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk)
Mon, 11 May 1998 12:49:52 +0100 (BST)


On Mon, 11 May 1998, Robert Harley wrote:

> Ladies and gentlemen,
>
> This is a sad day, but I cannot tell a lie. My Linux box just
> crashed. It actually locked up solid for no obvious reason. Yes, I
> even had to hit the reset button to reboot. Of course the disks were
> all synced and fscked and my usual apps auto-recovered their state,
> but it did die.

uptime?

A single-event upset (aka parity error) in the area of memory used by
the kernel can easily cause this.

L.

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