Re: Kernel panic in 2.1.127: login respawns

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:11:47 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
>
> > login prompt. Originally, we did this for a few seconds on tty1 untill
> > init would not allow it to respawn for 5 minutes becuase of its rapid
> > reexcecution. We didn't let this ruin our so-called fun and switched to VC
> > 2. We did this for every single virtual console except for three (which we
> > accidentally skipped). We switched back to three and held down ^D. Uh,
> > dang. Kernel panic. It printed a stack trace (about a paragraph).
>
> Reproduced on my 386 (UP ;-) running 2.1.128. I'll investigate.

I managed to do the same using a v2.0.36pre? kernel. Something *IS* spooky
out there.

Hardware:

IBM PS/2 model 56slc2 (486slc2 25/50MHz)
16 MB memory
Debian HAMM (v2.0)

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