[plug] RH6 shutdown problem

[Len Bird]

The word was HEARSAY meaning it was a furphy from a third party without
substance-----and moreover he is still wrong -----try it for yourself,

Regards,   Len Bird

Bret Busby wrote:

> We have RH6 installed on two boxes.
>
> One is a Cyrix 6x86 based system with 32MB RAM. It boots and shuts down okay.
>
> The other is an AMD K6-2 300 based system, with 64MB RAM, and it crashes after
> shutting down. It gets to "System  halted", then produces a screen of error
> text, with, a few lines from the top, an error indicating a kernel paging fault.
> The text includes the contents of the registers, further down the screen.
> Apparently this happens every time the system is shutdown from the RH6 operating
> system.
>
> Firstly, is it possible to somehow extract the text that is displayed, as the
> text being displayed, is displayed after the "System halted" message? We figure
> that, if the text can somehow be saved to a file, then it can be transmitted for
> diagnosis. The logical problem is, apart from how the error appears to be
> generated, and displayed, after the system has shutdown, how can we save the
> output to a file after the system has shutdown?
>
> Secondly, does anyone have any idea what is happening?
>
> And, despite the differences in politics between Christian and me, and, despite
> the allegations by someone else on this list, of Christian basing some of his
> advice on heresy (?), I respect his technical advice.
>
> Bret Busby
> .............................