I like my OS best when it ticks away in the background peacefully, gives me a few stats if i ask for it, but basically shuts up and does its job. I like to know what’s going on, more or less, but i’m definitely an inhabitant of userland.
Yesterday, however, my 5-years old desktop decided to die on me. Or, to be more precise:
Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Which told me that something not right, and i couldn’t watch my movie. I ran memtest since it comes prepackaged … and that froze, after a while. Mh.
A post morten was called for, if only out of respect. I booted on an old boot disk Gentoo liveCD), and mounted the hard drive partitions, but couldn’t find any useful forensics. Will teach me to look at my logs more often, i guess. Worse, i’m not positive that i’ve not been hacked.
On internet: i actually found a good common-sense post. I’m gonna have a look at the kernel code, just out of curiosity.
But to be honest, i think my PC’s day as a desktop are over. I’m very much minded to turn it into a svn server cum media server (and any other uses of the kind i can think of).
That last bit was asked by my non-geek bf, my first plan was to make it my FreeBSD testing ground + webserver + svn server (since i’m told FreeBSD has nice things called jails). But i guess the media player bit doesn’t really fit in there. Things we do for love.
