[Gllug] Erratic Mouse Behaviour

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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Stephen Harker stated:
> On Wednesday 05 December 2001 23:18, you wrote:
>> It's *never* necessary. (Sometimes, it's a good idea; the libc5 ->
>> glibc transition, for instance, which otherwise required eventually
>> recompiling every binary on the system.)
> It is when a dodgy SCSI Jaz drive completely freezes the kernel and 
> hangs the whole machine. And yes I did try and ssh in from another 
> machine. I think the kernel message just before meltdown was "Aieee!"

Similarly, I was 300 miles away from loki here, telnetted into it, doing
a `make install' on the XEmacs package tree, when all of a sudden a
bunch of fs-related panics scrolled up the screen and loki paniced and
auto-rebooted :(

(thank goodness I'd remembered about the auto-reboot-on-panic option.)

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     --- Alim Razim, for the Northern Alliance, demonstrating fine
         command of traditional Afghan prisoner control techniques.

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