Linux 'blue screen'

phrakture · 2006-03-23 16:53:33

After many many years of seeing all those McDonald's drive-thru windows with Windows BSODs (and others), so it begins with Linux:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/milliped/116393699/

Oddly enough, I'd really like to know what airline that is.

Has anyone seen other instances of things like this?

tomk · 2006-03-23 17:05:04

Uhh .. do you not believe him when he says it's Air Algerie? :?

Although, as one comment says, it could be an Airbus decision to install it in the first place - the airline would provide the content.

phrakture · 2006-03-23 17:12:10

tomk wrote:

Uhh .. do you not believe him when he says it's Air Algerie? :?

Ya know, I completely glazed over that, and read it as "the display on this Airbus 3300" (or whatever)... :oops:

cactus · 2006-03-23 17:16:21

yeah. I think I saw this on digg yesterday. pretty funny.

phrakture · 2006-03-23 17:47:14

cactus wrote:

yeah. I think I saw this on digg yesterday. pretty funny.

I got it here: http://reddit.com/info?id=3f1e

T-Dawg · 2006-03-23 18:00:47

How do we know that is truly a kernel panic? Its *looks* normal to me but I really can't make out the messages....In fact it looks like its beyond the kernel and into the init scripts. Can anyone else make them out?

phrakture · 2006-03-23 18:08:21

Penguin wrote:

How do we know that is truly a kernel panic? Its *looks* normal to me but I really can't make out the messages....In fact it looks like its beyond the kernel and into the init scripts. Can anyone else make them out?

Click on 'all sizes' and go to 'original size' - it's like 3000x2000 or something retartedly large.

clank · 2006-03-23 18:41:37

My Software Development professor forced that to happen on a Delta Song airliner once. He said that everything about that flight annoyed him so he started looking for ways to crash it... the passenger computer system anyway. I guess delta song flights give everyone a media terminal because he said he found a bug in a tetris game on it.

There was an input box for the level with inc/decrement buttons next to it. The box also let you type in the level. Now it said you can only enter 1-4. When it got to four, the inc button greyed out. He also tried entering higher and lower values than specified, but nothing worked; except for the number 5.

The inc button didn't grey out either, so he just kept incrementing using the button until he got up to 127. When he incremented to 128, the computer locked up and entered the restart sequence. He looked around and one-by-one, everyone elses did the same.

He started off the story by saying, "Before we get started, anyone want to know how I made the linux penguin show up on everyone's computer terminal on one of my flights?"

tomk · 2006-03-23 22:30:12

Penguin wrote:

Can anyone else make them out?

Here's my best guess:

mkdir /ixpelt
mount 128.1.6.1/ixpelt /ixpelt
[ 0 -ne 0 ]
xset.sh
trap   1
DEFAULT_PACKET_SIZE=1760
DEFAULT_DELAY_PACKET=-2500
WAITFOR=6
[ -f /tmp/httpserver_def.sh ]
. /tmphttpserver_def.sh
export HTTPSERVER=128.1.6.1
export FILESERVER=128.1.6.1
export DLD_HOST=128.1.6.1
start_xset
exec
svc: bad direction 1650011936, dropping request
etc

tyme · 2006-03-23 23:44:40

that's what it looks like to me too, tomk. here's a cut of it from the full-size original. linked instead of posting to save dial-uppers

trapdoor · 2006-03-24 06:02:18

I can see these "Bluescreens" in the bus, which takes me to school sometimes... it just reboots ever and ever again. Nice if you are bored

mezoko · 2006-03-28 00:55:06

^^
Dam were do you live my bus is yellow and it has not a single computer in it. It just got a radio.

Eliatamby · 2006-03-28 03:23:11

I've seen similar at a bank office. Each floor had a LCD touchscreen gui, where you can search for someone's number, and call them from the terminal

had no gui, just a blank terminal screen with Red Hat 9.0 written on the top

cdhotfire · 2006-03-28 03:34:25

msg43 wrote:

^^
Dam were do you live my bus is yellow and it has not a single computer in it. It just got a radio.

Here they dont even have radios.

trapdoor · 2006-03-28 05:54:07

msg43 wrote:

^^
Dam were do you live my bus is yellow and it has not a single computer in it. It just got a radio.

There are a few embedded systems, which display the route the bus will take.

mezoko · 2006-03-28 11:10:41

cdhotfire wrote:

msg43 wrote:
^^
Dam were do you live my bus is yellow and it has not a single computer in it. It just got a radio.
Here they dont even have radios.

Well it just two radios. 1 is the local radio which the bus driver as control over and the other one is a communcation radio for the buses to talk to each other.

mezoko · 2006-03-28 11:11:28

trapdoor wrote:

msg43 wrote:
^^
Dam were do you live my bus is yellow and it has not a single computer in it. It just got a radio.
There are a few embedded systems, which display the route the bus will take.

Do you take a school bus or public transpertation?

trapdoor · 2006-03-28 12:03:44

I take a public bus for beeing transported to school

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-03-28 13:35:39

I bet I can tweak every linux machine to behave that way.

mezoko · 2006-03-28 20:30:47

Moo-Crumpus wrote:

I bet I can tweak every linux machine to behave that way.

I bet you not unless if you got good hacking skills... root password

Moo-Crumpus · 2006-03-28 20:42:01

Of course I'ld need to know root, and then recompile the kernel with some obscure opt flags, wrong modules and some stuff. Ore plugin wrong ram chips with bad timing in the bios. Worth a try, humh? Who would donate for that project?

Gullible Jones · 2006-03-29 00:12:43

The easy way: make 'telenit 6' an hourly cron job.

syntax · 2006-03-29 09:32:13

that is one of the brand new airbusses delivered since december last year, air algerie was one of the customers, so was Turkish Airlines, I have been at the one with Turkish which has the same system installed (which is delivered by Panasonic Avionics)

there were some minor issues because they are using a brand new system that is still in some kind of beta

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