Re: [Fwd: Bug in Kernel 2.4.20-8]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
01 Jul 2003 19:54:08 +0100


On Maw, 2003-07-01 at 08:35, Cornelius Kölbel wrote:
> I am using Kernel 2.4.20. I admit, it is the kernel of RedHat 9.
> I hope this is not, because RedHat did so much changes to the Kernel

Always hard to tell. It is worth filing Red Hat kernel bugs in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla and picking up current errata
kernels if there are newer ones

> I was just typing a mail, when the caps lock light and the scroll lock light went on.
> Nothing happend anymore. No mouse, no keyboard.
> I resetted the computer.

This is a panic - the machine got itself into a state that could not
continue. The flashing lights are giving data in morse (useful for those
truely desperate debugging situations only 8))

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