Re: Linux Sudden Death Syndrome?

Snow Cat (snowcat@gd.cs.csufresno.edu)
Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:54:36 -0700 (PDT)

root once wrote:
>
> Has anyone had experience with the "Linux Sudden Death Syndrome?"
>
> Symptoms include:
>
> 1) Hanging without warning, apparently randomly. can be anywhere from a few
> hours to up to 10 days.
> 2) No panic information.. nada.. system just stops. no pings, etc.
> 3) No VC switching works, but can scroll up/down within the current VC with
> shift-PgUp/shift-PgDn, so apparently SOMETHING is still working.
>

I had it happen when 1.2G Maxtor HD was overheating in the middle of heavy
I/O (like starting X or a cron job with find). Since disk wasn't working,
no error messages vert logged :)

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