rmfowler@texrex.uucp (Rex Fowler) (02/16/91)
Well, once again I am going to jinx myself by posting to the world that I have SOLVED my 3b1 crash problems! Only this time, I'm almost positive that it's fixed. texrex has been up for 96 hours! Its previous record was around 30 hours but averaged somewhere around 4-5 hours uptime. As many of you know, I tried every possible suggestion that was mentioned by many of you. I never replaced the power supply which was just about my last hope. Anyway, for the past 4 days when I came home from work I was totally amazed to see that it is actually still running. Normally I would be welcomed by the all too familiar screen of kernel panic messages and register dumps and all sorts of other guru meditations, as little david put it. For the life of me I couldn't figure out if I had changed anything or was I just extremely lucky and the crash was about to come. Tonight, I was thinking extra hard of what i had changed and I looked over at my mouse and remembered that it was no longer connected; but WHEN did I disconnect it? It seemed like it had been quite awhile ago but I wasn't sure. A few hours later I remembered that after I had disconnected my mouse, i tried out a game of tetrix to see if it worked without the mouse. You know what this means? Yes, the high score file would be timestamped with the date of my mouse-ectomy!! First, I did a 'who -b' and got: . system boot Feb 11 23:13 Then I did an 'ls -l /usr/games/lib', crossed my fingers and got: -rw-r--r-- 1 rmfowlerusers 880 Feb 11 23:29 tetris.best Look pretty convincing to you? Needless to say, this called for another beer! Well, sorry I rambled on so long but I found this to be extremely interesting. I would have never guessed my rat was at fault. Anyone else ever have any mouse problems? For those of you who are seeing similar garbage when your system crashes, you might want to unplug that little critter before your next reboot and see what happens. I originally unplugged mine because I was tired of the cord getting in my way all the time. One of these days I'll plug it back in to see if behaves the same. I'm sure it will. -- Rex Fowler <rmfowler%texrex@cirr.com> UUCP: egsner!texrex!rmfowler