Dell GX1 500 MHZ locked up with Kernel 2.4.26 due to ACPI -- Also:IPTables question.
From: Justin Piszcz
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 05:58:40 EST
Only thing changed was from 2.4.16 build 13 -> build 14 was that I enabled
ACPI, had APM & ACPI both compiled into the kernel, I just wanted to try
out ACPI to see if it worked on an older system.
I previously have had a > 190 day uptime (without ACPI in the kernel, an
older kernel of course, but I believe it is ACPI that caused the problem).
Also, I do have APIC in the kernel and always have it in the kernel; it is
ACPI that caused the lockup.
HOWEVER:
My monitor was in power save mode (I run X on it), the caps lock & scroll
lock key were flashing on and off (but not the num lock key) . there was
nothing in the logs as to why it crashed (paniced), is there some way I
can see what the panic message is if this ever happens again (even though
it shouldn.t because I disabled ACPI)?
Perhaps using serial port..? or perhaps one of the network options for
syslogd/errors/panics, but these are only for 2.6.x?
The reason why I don.t use 2.6.x yet is 2.4.x has patch-o-matic modules
(h323,realplayer,msmedia conn trackers) that 2.6. does not seem to have.
Further question regarding iptables, will fragmented packets ever be able
to be blocked/logged with connection trackers? (ie: A machine could
theoretically be DoS.d and if they are using connection_trackers, they
would not see it via iptables), only tcpdump/similar.
Thanks.
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