Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 7 Jul 1996 19:57:31 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jacques Gelinas <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.3 ghost reboot |
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On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Yesterday I installed 2.0.3 on my system. Before I went to bed I stopped > > my PPP connection and left X running as usual. When I woke up this > > morning Linux had mysteriously rebooted. No record of what happened in > > any log. All of my mount points came up dirty and had to be rechecked. > > This has *never* happened before. > > > > Looks like a bug somewhere to me. 2.0.0 did not experience this problem. > > Could also be a power spike. Did anything or anyone else see a power spike (the > uptime will let you work out when it might have been).
I have seen silent reboot with a bad cache module. Although it was with SMP linux. This was the infamous TYAN bug btw. They admit having problem with the 512k cache module.
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