Re: Various bugs, 2.1.66 - still there 2.1.71

Magnus Sjoegren (m-23347@mailbox.swipnet.se)
Tue, 9 Dec 1997 15:30:23 +0100 (MET)


On 3 Dec 1997, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> >. I had kernel 2.1.66 die on my while working in X. No oops, logs or
> > anything could be found with clues to what happend. Watchdog showed a
> > load of 0. The machine was not working hard but had some idle, swapped
> > out processes.
[snip - other stuff deleted]

>
> Enough. It's the tty bug. It should be fixed in 67 and up (current is
> 70)
>

I still see this behaviour with kernel 2.1.71. Spontaneous reboot while
working in X. I was using netscape the two times it occured (once with
either mentioned kernel). The load was 0 and there was no logs or
messages.

Magnus