Re: Linux crashes a lot - more info
I should have included some specs. I guess I was too frustrated to think of
that...
Hardware:
500MHz Athlon (NO overclocking, no overheating)
96MB RAM (appended 96M in LILO, and accounted for in 'free')
ATI Rage Pro (8MB)
Software:
Debian 2.2 (Potato net-installation)
128MB Swap
XF86_Mach64 X server (set to 1024x768 resolution)
I'm able to compile a kernel without crashing. I don't know if Windows will
run on it, because it's a dedicated Linux machine. Before I installed
Potato, I had Corel Linux (Slink) installed. Although I was using KDE, it
crashed just as often - usually under the same conditions, but I thought it
was KDE.
Let me know if there is other information I should provide. If it's in the
logs, which logs should I look in? I know Linux isn't supposed to crash
this often, but from people's reactions, there really is something wrong
here...
John
>what kinda box ? i've never had this happen..never had netscape take
>down a machine..ever. possible the machine is running out of memory ??
>how much ram/swap u got ?
>
>nate
>
>John Reinke wrote:
>>
>> Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot.
>>
>> It commonly seems to coincide with Netscape crashing, but it almost always
>> takes the whole system with it. I can't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or change to
>> another console. Occasionally I can telnet into the box and try to kill X,
>> but it never works. I always end up having to hit the reset button, which
>> doesn't make me happy. Twice, it has crashed while running dselect from a
>> console.
>>
>> I need to use a "real" web browser, which seems to mainly be Netscape. I
>> shouldn't be forced not to use Netscape, just so my box doesn't crash -
>> this is Linux after all. I've tried different window managers
>> (Enlightenment, Afterstep, Windowmaker...), but that doesn't help.
>>
>> I've considered compiling the magic key combination into the kernel, but
>> it's the crashing or rebooting that I'd like to avoid in the first place.
>>
>> Other than not using Netscape, or disabling java or javascript (that helps,
>> but not totally), what can/should I do to keep from crashing so often?
>> Right now, it seems to crash about every other day.
>>
>> Additionally, I had something else weird happen today. I couldn't log into
>> my box from another machine, xdm, or a console, but it was still running
>> IPMasq services, etc. I finally had to reset it, since I couldn't get into
>> it at all. It would never complete the validating process. The kernel logs
>> showed the output like I see sometimes when it crashes and I'm at the
>> console - several lines of addresses and numbers. Any suggestions to
>> prevent this from happening again would also be helpful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
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