On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:35:37PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:20:48PM +0200, Christoph Bier wrote: > > > Can somebody give me a hint where to start searching? It's not a > > special application that freezes Sarge, it happens accidentally: > > using Mozilla, Emacs, xterm, gnome-panel ... and even the terminal > > without X running. > > My first instinct is to suspect hardware. Try booting a > Knoppix/Gnoppix/bootable CD distro of your choice and see if that freezes. > If it does, it's probably hardware, not software. If not, you can use the > CD-based distro to back up your hard drive. Also, If you are going to the trouble of breaking a *noppix CD, be sure and run memtest86 (available from the boot menu) to rule out a possible bad memory module. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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