[RLUG] System freeze

[Bill Cunningham]

Dennis,

That reminds me, was the numlock or capslock light
blinking?

If so thats a kernel panic warning.

- Bill


--- James Washer <washer at trlp.com> wrote:

> One of the best simple test for life is to hit the
> caps-lock key, and see if the caps-lock LED comes on.. If
> it doesn't.. the box is in pretty sad shape.
> 
>  - jim
> 
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:36:29 -0700
> Ben Johnson <ben at blarg.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:16:16AM -0700, Dennis Bagley
> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Ideas?  Recommendations?
> > 
> > it may only be X freezing up on you.  sometimes
> ctrl+alt+f1 or
> > ctrl+alt+bckspc works to get out of a frozen X session.
> > 
> > maybe some process on the box has found a way to use
> all userspace
> > processing cycles.  icmp packets are handled at a very
> low level in the
> > OS...  so often when a system isn't responsive and
> can't even be
> > connected to with ssh, it will still respond to pings. 
> that's a good
> > test.
> > 
> > keyboard events, I think, are also handled at a very
> low level but if X
> > is frozen then you won't see any echo.  need a console
> for that.
> > 
> > are you getting any messages in the logs that might
> give a clue?
> > sometimes you'll see a kernel oops.  when my laptop
> crashes because of
> > my windows nic driver I see in the logs messages about
> about packets
> > that are too large.  or disk read errors/timeouts... 
> stuff like that.
> > 
> > I hear compiling a kernel is a good way to test memory.
>  if your
> > compiler segfaults (sig11), you probably have a bad
> stick.  I've heard
> > this can be more reliable then memtest programs.
> > 
> > - Ben
> > 
> > 
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