Filepro-list Digest, Vol 42, Issue 43

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:40:00 -0400):
[...]
> Cause, in my 23 years of experience, I've *never* had a user break a
> *nix machine.  Ever.  I'm only had 6 panics in that time, and 4 of them
> were bad hardware.  1 a bad driver, and I never did trace down the
> other one.
[...]

I saw the "shut her down, Scotty" message a couple of times.  I saw a
few actual "panic" crashes over the years.

I also ran into two bugs in kernels that would lock things up.  One, on
an NCR Tower, would freeze the entire system if you did the equivalent
of "unlink(-1)".  (No panic message.  The entire system simply stopped.)
Another, on a SCO box, would cause an i-node to be kept locked at the
kernel level, meaning any process which attempted to access that i-node
would freeze solid.  (By "freeze solid", I mean that the process was in
a wait state that even "kill -9" couldn't get out of.)  I never did find
the actual cause, but I was able to repeat the lock on demand.

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