[clug] Crash with flashing keyboard lights

[Tony Breeds]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 03:27:14PM +1100, David Tulloh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The other night I was formatting a partition on a USB drive using 
> /sbin/mkfs.ext3
> Towards the end of the process the computer hung and my caps lock and 
> scroll lock keyboards lights started flashing.

Basically that means the kernel panic()'ed.  What caused it is probably too
late to diagnose now :(

Could be a kernel bug, could be a hardware problem.

Yours Tony

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