kernel death (1.3.9[56])

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 16:28:54 +0200


This is to report two occurrences of Linux being killed (frozen, perhaps)
by netscape. (That is, after the command "netscape foo" there is no
netscape window but just silence.)

Phenomena: keyboard dead, mouse dead, modem dead, no reaction to ping,
no disk noises. In short, dead.

Circumstances:
Yesterday (or perhaps the day before): 1.3.95, lots of activity.

Today: 1.3.96, very quiet machine, no net activity, netscape
invoked for localhost, hardly any other processes. Just before
xmosaic had been invoked. [My daughter polishing her home page.]

There is no log. I cannot reproduce this at will.

Andries

PS - After writing `I cannot reproduce this at will' I tried somewhat more
to mimic my daughter's situation, and froze 1.3.96 again. Still, ten further
attempts didn't do this again. So: three occurrences, but not reproducible.