On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:23:37AM +1000, john wrote: > Came into work this morning to find a new installation on a very old box > had done a kernel oops.
It could be bad memory. I can't say that I've ever had memory die while in use (i.e. in a system that had been fine for a long time, hadn't been rebooted, etc). I recently had something similar happen, though, and it turned out to be a frozen CPU fan. The system overheated during its nightly cron work and died. If the machine has been up pretty much constantly, and hasn't been taken apart or anything recently, then this might well be what happened. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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