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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