From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Thomas Foerster <puckwork@madz.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: URGENT : System hands on "Freeing unused kernel memory: "
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:50:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010327095002.A25719@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010327064904Z130600-406+4294@vger.kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010327064904Z130600-406+4294@vger.kernel.org>; from puckwork@madz.net on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:48:08 +0200
On 03.27 Thomas Foerster wrote:
>
> But suddenly the box was offline. One technical assistant from our ISP tried
> to reboot
> our server (he couldn't tell me if there had been any messages on the screen),
> but the
> system always hangs on
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed
>
Try booting with init=/bin/bash, it looks like kernel gets a bad /sbin/init,
and gets stuck. Perhaps the shutdown damaged init, it starts to run and get
hung.
--
J.A. Magallon # Let the source
mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke...
Linux werewolf 2.4.2-ac25 #5 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:46:56 CEST 2001 i686
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-27 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 6:48 URGENT : System hands on "Freeing unused kernel memory: " Thomas Foerster
2001-03-27 7:50 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-03-27 14:40 ` Stuart MacDonald
2001-03-27 16:21 ` Alan Cox
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2001-03-27 8:40 Thomas Foerster
2001-03-27 9:06 Studierende der Universitaet des Saarlandes
2001-03-27 9:12 Hen, Shmulik
2001-03-27 9:23 Thomas Foerster
[not found] <fa.it9nv9v.g08l8a@ifi.uio.no>
2001-03-27 10:07 ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-03-27 11:19 ` Jonathan Morton
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