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RE: bug w2k
From: Kevin Thayer <kthayer () paypal com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 11:30:16 -0700
Hello all, I was able to reproduce this bug on the first try. However, the machine did not reboot until after the ping had finished. (I did a ping -t). In addition, it seems to work with most programs that trap keyboard input. I tested it with traceroute (again, it worked only after the program exited), ping, dir /s /a, and all had the same result; as soon as the program exited, it would be run again, and then reboot. In general, the output looks like this: C:\> tracert yahoo.com <program output> <program output> <program output> <program output> C:\> C:\> C:\> C:\> C:\> C:\> C:\> tracert yahoo.com (reset occurs) It appears to be the result of windows trapping the input and feeding it to the command interpreter (cmd.exe) all at once. F7 displays a list of the most recent commands, so it appears that windows is trying to run several copies of an identical command simultaneously and that's making it very unhappy. Surprising that we don't at least get a BSOD. Cheers, Kevin Thayer Network Operations Engineer PayPal Network Operations
-----Original Message----- Hello, this is a new bug found in W2K in all flavors, works with all levels of users. Here is the proof of concept: Open a Cmd Window Ping to any host (for example ping 10.100.2.1 preferred a host in your LAN), no switch needed. Just ping Now press F7 and Enter (try a couple of times quickly...less than ten , and you can see what a meaning) The machine reboots, from nothing a warm reboot. Please let me know if you have the same bug. I tried this in W2k sp2 English and Spanish.
Current thread:
- bug w2k SIFFREDI DANIEL (Jul 28)
- Re: bug w2k BrainMast (Jul 28)
- Re: bug w2k Carl Livitt (Jul 28)
- RE: bug w2k CJ Oakwood (Jul 28)
- Re: bug w2k Ovidiu Muntean (Jul 28)
- Re: bug w2k - more followup Carl Livitt (Jul 28)
- RE: bug w2k - more followup Mark L. Jackson (Jul 28)
- Re: bug w2k Nate Amsden (Jul 28)
- RE: bug w2k dave (Jul 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: bug w2k Kevin Thayer (Jul 28)
- RE: bug w2k Linn Boyd (Jul 28)
- RE: bug w2k Jonathan Rickman (Jul 28)
- RE: bug w2k Forrest J Cavalier III (Jul 28)
- RE: bug w2k Steven Evans (Jul 29)
- RE: bug w2k Tom Laermans (Jul 29)