[RLUG] System freeze

[Dennis Bagley]

Bill,

You know it's happened  (The freeze up) 3 times and I needed my computer
up in a hurry so I didn't even look for that.  OTOH I have a wireless
logitech kb & mouse.  Would that still work the same way?

Dennis

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 14:38 -0700, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> 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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