[ale] First Linux crash!

[Jonathan Glass]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:17, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Well, I've finally done it.  Not once but twice.  I crashed Linux.  This
> is the first time I've actually crashed Linux where it wasn't a dumb
> mistake on my part.  Sure I've created kernels that crapped out, but
> that was my fault.  I've been running linux since version 0.12 (1992)
> and I thought it was bulletproof. 8)
> 
> Anyway what happens is I'm running 2.4.18 as a file server.  Samba
> shared files for backing up my and my wife's Win98 systems.  It's worked
> flawlessly until this weekend.  I tried to backup from my system and it
> killed Linux.  I was monitoring the console (serial, no monitor) but
> when the thing died it just stopped.  No error messages, nothing in any
> log file that I could find.  
> 
> How do I go about looking for the cause of this?  If the kernel panics,
> does it not dump to the serial port?  Will I have to hook up a monitor
> to see it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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What kind of network card do you have?
-- 
Jonathan Glass <jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu>

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