From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 03:55:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA18900 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 03:55:03 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA18894 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 03:55:01 -0800 From: nbc@cs.strath.ac.uk Received: from bell.cs.strath.ac.uk (bell.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id DAA18460 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 03:54:52 -0800 Received: from simpson-02.cs.strath.ac.uk by bell.cs.strath.ac.uk id aa01711; 10 Nov 95 11:44 GMT Date: Fri, 10 Nov 95 11:44:31 GMT Message-Id: <9511101144.AA04106@simpson-02.cs.strath.ac.uk> Date-Received: Fri, 10 Nov 95 11:44:31 GMT To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Catastrophic Failure! Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes indeed, the inevitablilty we have come to associate with computers crashing (they only do it when it's important they don't) has manifest itself yet again. My P75 running FreeBSD had been up for 6 days, running flawlessly, until our systems manager came along to see it with a view to setting up some similar systems. The demo was going well; I showed him that a P75 with FreeBSD was faster in most cases that an Alpha, and all were pleased. Until, that is, I switched to another virtual screen (using fvwm) which had netscape, running remotely from one of the aforementioned Alphas, on it. And lo, disaster let loose! Netscxape failed to redraw its window! This unforgivable event was followed a few seconds later by my deity-like machine rebooting - and I mean *rebooting*. No kernel panics, no disk syncs, just a good ol' reboot, like my Amiga does when a program plays core war. Now, I'm not really bothered by this, but I thought it best to inform you of this. I've no idea why this happened but I suspect it had something to do with netscape, what with it being a flaky beta version. I'm running the 2.1.0-951026-SNAP snapshot kernel on top of a 2.0.5 release, so perhaps this has something to do with it? Or perhaps it was the Alpha's revenge on my machine for being faster than it ;-) Neil