According to Dan Srebnick:
> Thank you again for pointing me towards the newest sysvinit release the
> other day. I installed 2.76 under kernel 2.2.1 linked with glibc2.06.
>
> My results were absolutely terrible. While the program compiled just
> fine, after installation, my machine became terribly unstable. It would
> spontaneously reboot at intervals from 10 minutes to several hours. I
> have backed off to a 2.64 release linked against libc5.
>
> If there is any further information that I can provide, please let me
> know. In all cases, there was no dump, just a screen blanking and a jump
> to the bios start routine.
This is the response from miquels@cistron.nl:
This sounds like a kernel problem. A user level program should not
be able to crash the machine. Even if sysvinit _was_ the culprit
(which I doubt) then a reboot is still a kernel bug.
Try backing off to 2.0.36
Mike.
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