Re: all of a sudden !

[Witek Krecicki]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Shashidhar MC wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently installed Red Hat 7.1 (2.4.2-2) on a
> machine with 2GB HD, 32MB RAM.  It works fine, but
> occassionally it throws the following error and it
> hangs:
> <error>
<cut>
> Call Trace: .....
> Code: 8b 04 ...........
> Kernel Panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
> In interrupt handler - not syncing
> 
> </error>
>   I have typed out the error manually on a
> neighbouring machine (because my machine hung) and
> hence replaced those numbers with dots.
> 
> I was just reading a file in a text editor when this
> last happened.
> 
> Any idea why this happens ?  Any solution ?
Try to rewrite it completly (yes, it's possible) then on this hanging 
machine try to do ksymoops < file_with_oops and then send here decoded 
oops
WK