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elfsI woke up this morning to a very weird thing. A Black Screen of Death. Windows people have their blue screen, but in Linux terminal failure of the OS results in a black screen with a (slightly) more useful trace of where things went horribly wrong.
I don't think I've seen one of those since 1994. I hope there's not a problem with the 2.6.9 kernel; it's really stabilized my hardware and seems much more tolerant of the twonky miniBIOS in the big hard drive. There was a lot of network traffic going through the box at the time-- a usenet pull, bittorrent, and an rsync push-- but it was still annoying.
Anyway, I rebooted and was back up in less than 30 seconds.
I don't think I've seen one of those since 1994. I hope there's not a problem with the 2.6.9 kernel; it's really stabilized my hardware and seems much more tolerant of the twonky miniBIOS in the big hard drive. There was a lot of network traffic going through the box at the time-- a usenet pull, bittorrent, and an rsync push-- but it was still annoying.
Anyway, I rebooted and was back up in less than 30 seconds.
