I just read Linus' reply to Thomas Koenigs reboot problem in c.o.l.d.s.
There he seems to refer to my report about "strace touch xx" rebooting my
system. As he can't reproduce it and it happened to me yesterday with 1.3.18
I'll provide some more information about my system:
ASUS SP3G with i486DX2/66, on board NCR53c810 (SCSI devices attached:
Quantum Maverick 540MB and Toshiba CD-ROM), Aztech Sound Galaxy.
As mentioned in my previous report, the kernel is ELF compiled with
gcc-2.7.0 -O6 -fexpensive-optimizations.
Another possibly interesting point: my machine does NOT reboot with
something like "strace ls". One might conclude that it happens only,
when something is going to write to the disk (or better to the buffer
cache).
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Best regards
Joerg
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Joerg Pommnitz, ARTe Team, IBM Scientific Center Heidelberg, Germany
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