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On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 12:42 -0400, Steven Lembark wrote: |
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> > I tried ALT + SysRq + EISUB today on my MythTV backend server which |
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> > has been crashing lately. Unfortunately it's crashing so badly that |
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> > even at the server's keyboard this didn't work. |
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> > I guess my weekend fate of building a new server is sealed... |
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> Have fun. |
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> Check out motherboards with watchdog capability |
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> and enable it in the kernel. |
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watchdogs are nice, and linux makes them ultra-easy to program, but of |
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course if your watchdog task dies, then the machine effectively hits the |
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reset button for you - no nice shutdown whatsoever! (Which is what you |
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want in a hard lock-up, but not if your programming skills are the cause |
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of the problem :) |
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cya, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil |
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of others, but it is seldom a mistake. |
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-- H.L. Mencken |
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