I'm running Debian woody on a box that's connected to my cable modem; it does NAT, web and email serving for me. Earlier this afternoon, it suddenly became unresponsive, and when I plugged a monitor into it (I usually use a different machine), it was just scrolling hex numbers that looked like this: [<c044xxxx>] [<c884xxxx>] [<c044xxxx>] [<c044xxxx>] [<c044xxxx>] [<c044xxxx>] All 8-digit numbers; all of them that I could see starting with "c". They were scrolling at a rate of several per second, and I couldn't switch to another console or anything. I had to hit the reset button to reboot, and it's working fine now. Did something in the kernel go south on me? I am running 2.4.17, but have never had any problems with the 2.4 series. There's nothing in the logs that I can find that indicates any problem; the box was working fine and then just suddenly stopped, interrupting my Radio K shoutcast :( . Any ideas? Thanks! Dan -- | 4699 BDCB B1A5 28B6 7F8A F8DF EB6A BC2A B0A1 99BF (GPG) | Dan Drake <drake+tclug at lemongecko.org> | http://lemongecko.org/drake/ | public key: email <drake+gpg at lemongecko.org> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020105/dfc66d3a/attachment.pgp