nodata wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 12:00 +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
HI all
I am a huge fan of Linux and Fedora in particular. I just bought another low
budget pc with windows xp on so I could test how my software (php/xml) looks
on internet explorer. Again it filled me with joy that I switched to Linux
almost a year ago, for that windows box BSODed on me within the first fifteen
minutes! (actually while trying to uninstall AOL) (BSOD=Blue Screen of Death
= Kernel Error)
No-one on this list won't know what a BSOD is.
Still, one thing that windows handles well are bad cd's. When a cd fails, the
whole os doesn't come crashing down. I was just ripping the cd Europe
1982-1992 on my Linux box and listening to my collection with amaroK.
Suddenly the system got in an endless loop. The 5 seconds of music in the
play buffer were repeated over and over again. I ejected the cd but that
didn't save the system. I tried also to ssh in but that wasn't possible
either. It didn't respond to pusing the poweroff button and the only
solution was forced power off.
With kind regards
Andy
I've never heard of this cd. Is it new? Is it copy protected?
From a terminal windows, run this while ripping the cd:
tail -f /var/log/messages
See any errors?
If the error that he experienced is similar to the lockup reading that I
experienced. The system acts like it was frozen in time. Everything
stops at where it was and nothing works after the hang except a reboot.
The screen has the same items displayed, the mouse is unresponsive, the
keyboard is unreponsive.
This should not happen to a system when a bad CD, floppy or usb media
device is nounted on the system.
Nobody wants their system killed by corrupted media which is not part of
the core operating system.
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