While recently experimenting with putting funny signals on an Ethernet
cable (you don't want to know), I got spews of messages like this in the
logs:
Oct 8 23:54:19 clpc20 kernel: ^IWaiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2015.
Oct 8 23:54:19 clpc20 kernel: ^IWaiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2015.
Oct 8 23:54:19 clpc20 kernel: ^IWaiting for 3c509 to packet, status 2005.
Oct 8 23:54:19 clpc20 kernel: ^IWaiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2005.
Oct 8 23:54:20 clpc20 kernel: ^IWaiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2015.
Oct 8 23:54:20 clpc20 kernel: ^IWaiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2005.
Oct 8 23:54:20 clpc20 kernel: ^IWaiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2015.
Oct 8 23:54:20 clpc20 kernel: ^IWaiting for 3c509 to discard packet, status 2005.
Ok, fair enough.
But immediately after the first spew, all processes that looked in /proc
(such as ps, ls /proc etc.) hung and couldn't be killed.
So I rebooted.
Everything's been _nearly_ fine since (one unexpected core dump from
Mutt, perhaps I should not be surprised). For a while I thought a file
had got itself corrupted, but on second thoughts perhaps I just forgot
what I'd been doing recently :-)
-- Jamie
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