Re: Not strictly an XFS question

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>]

On 17 Jun 2003 10:32:53 +1000, 
Matthew Geier <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Using XFS 2.4.21 cvs on a Athlon/Nforce2 PC, on an otherwise standard
>RedHat 9 install. When I burn a CD, the system locks hard. Only signs of
>life are blinking keyboard lights. Have to press reset. I can't seem to
>find exactly what the blinking lights mean. I assume something really
>BAD has happened to the kernel...

Either a panic or an oops that has dropped into kdb.  Both panic and
kdb flash the keyboard lights to tell you that something is wrong.  If
you reproduce the problem on a text console (not under X) then you will
see the error messages.  See also Documentation/oops-tracing.txt.