> > 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.
>
> I've also seen this behaviour twice, but on a ppro 2.0.32 SMP machine and
> using netscape4 and _Accellerated X_. The box always has higher loads than
> 0, so other processes were running, but the reboot was spontaneous and
> netscape might be involved.
I guess that spontaneous reboots are mostly caused by kernel stack
overflow. As it seems to be pretty widespread problem, it might be
nice to produce patch to detect such overflows (and panic() machine so
that messages are not lost).
[With one version of kernel, all you had to do to reboot the machine
was to press t and <TAB> twice in bash$ prompt ;-)]
Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).