Re: Anyone else seen this.

On 7/4/26 09:52, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> On 7/3/2026 11:21 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Recently my router (Draytek 2726) has been spontaneously rebooting.
>>
>> Examination of the logs show a kernel panic caused by 'attempt to
>> execute an illegal instruction'.
> 
> 
> I wish it's not a Y2K problem that's not
> yet fixed. Did you update to the latest
> firmware?

   Um, we're pretty much past Y2K .....

   Funny movie by that name though  :-)

   Anyway, Linux started pretty small and compact
   and writ mostly by a relative few connected
   people.

   It's NOT like that anymore.

   And, alas, the logs often DON'T pin down The
   Problem much anymore - at least not in any
   comprehensible fashion. It's become kinda like
   the old Amiga "Guru Meditation" messages ...

   Which is why I trashed my A-1000. Paid a lot
   for it too, high hopes .....

   Yea, later versions WERE better, but I'd blown
   my wad already. X86 Forever thereafter.

   So ... sorry ... if your distro has gone rotten
   then you need to install a new one and hope for
   the best. Still better than Winders World though.

   If you can, write a "My Important Shit" script,
   BASH or Python, that will export YOUR custom
   stuff to a zip archive or whatever. New distro,
   then unzip all the shit to its original paths.