2.5.32 oopsed during shutdown, terminating the reboot process.
The machine wouldn't die this way.
Of course there were no logs, so I wrote down
some numbers and looked them up later:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at d0c65498
eip: c019bb38 tty_register_devfs
call trace:
c0197077 disable_irq_nosync
c011f78d sys_reboot
c014gf40 posix_lock_file
c024be45 devinet_ioctl
c02175c7 sock_destroy_inode
process reboot exited with preempt count 2
UP kernel, with preempt & devfs
Helge Hafting