Re: 2.2.5: INIT: PANIC: segmantation violation! giving up..

Bruce Elliott (bde@nwlink.com)
Wed, 12 May 1999 16:47:17 -0700

On May 11, 8:55am, "Ulrich Windl" wrote:
} Subject: 2.2.5: INIT: PANIC: segmantation violation! giving up..
} Hello,
}
} I have a real problem with Linux-2.2.5: For some reason that is not
} hardware, init dies. This wouldn't be as bad if
}
} 1) A message would go to syslog (and not to console only)
}
} 2) The kernel would really panic
}
} 3) The kernel would not silently fille the process table and refuse
} to start any more processes.

[ ... ]

A trick I use might possibly help in situations like this. I have
ctrl-alt-del mapped to start a single-user-style shell, rather than
going to shutdown. My inittab contains:

# In our case, CTRL-ALT-DEL was pressed.
#
rb::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/sulogin /dev/console

You can even resume operation with this after "halt".

-- 
B. D. Elliott   bde@nwlink.com   (Seattle)


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