Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:33:20 +0100 (BST) From: Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Subject: Cause of mysterious lock-ups with 2.2.x kernels discovered! Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, I wish to share with you all my latest discovery which I just made a few minutes ago, but I must explain the background first. For quite a while, since I returned from the States in Feb, I had been the victim of a recurring but random lock-ups with Linux in all incarnations of the 2.2.x series kernels, and have in fact reported several. The strange thing was that I never had these lock-ups in the States. All that was a mystery until tonight. I had left the keyboard for a short period of time, and returned to find one of my six cats SLEEPING on the keyboard! I shooed the cat away and sat down to continue my editing. I was completely thunderstruck when I realised that the machine was locked up tighter than a chastity belt on a virgin, X11 was still on the display, just completely frozen. Then a light went on in my tiny brain, somehow my cats must have discovered quite by accident the best way to annoy me; that is, pressing keys at random until the reboot/sync/meminfo key sequences (i.e alt-r, alt-s I think) kicks in and machine locks up as a result. I propose four solutions to this problem. 1. Keep cats out of room. 2. Disable the keyboard with a sequence of key-presses, and re-enable by pressing a different sequence of key-presses. Of course, it should be cat-proof. 3. Unplug the keyboard. 4. Put cat-repellent on keyboard. I hope this helps those of you with cats in the house and experiencing strange happenings. Cheers, Alex -- Legalise cannabis today! http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/