[5538] in testers
random linux crash in 9.2.7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Jun 20 15:22:20 2003
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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:22:17 -0400
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I just ran "lprm" to remove a print job, walked off to the printer,
and when I came back a few minutes later, my machine had rebooted and
gone to the idle login display.
"last" shows no signs of anyone else logging in, /var/log/messages
doesn't show much for that time period:
Jun 20 14:54:00 all-in-one CROND[8597]: (root) CMD (/etc/athena/desync 360; /etc/athena/reactivate > /dev/console 2>&1)
Jun 20 14:59:52 all-in-one syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jun 20 14:59:52 all-in-one syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
(and the rest of the normal boot messages, including recovery work
being done on the root partition)
No indications I can find of a controlled reboot, nor of any specific
reason for a kernel crash.
Running the "lprm" command again didn't do anything interesting, nor
did I really expect it to. I didn't have much else exciting running
at the time: emacs, xterm, slogin, maybe gv, and except for the xterm
where I ran lprm, they should've been idle. I wasn't downloading
email or running Kerberos test programs or anything. Barring someone
walking into my office in those couple of minutes and power-cycling
the machine, I can't see any good reason for this.
Sorry I don't have any more useful data to provide....
Ken
