Re: anti-freeze
On Sunday 22 August 2004 02:42, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> One of the machines I use regularly has a nasty habit of suddenly
> locking completely (it happens maybe a couple of times a month). It's
> always when X is running, and, I am nearly sure, always when a browser
> is being used. This is a Debian testing system, running kernel 2.4.23.
> Mozilla-Firefox is the browser that is mostly used.
>
> It's not just that X freezes; the whole system becomes autistic. In
> this state, it can't be reached from the network (no ssh, no ping, no
> nothing). The only way out, as far as I know, is with the
> power-button. Ctl-Alt-Del produces no response. Nor does Alt-SysRq,
> which means, I suppose, that the kernel is dead.
>
> These events leave no trace whatever in the logs and so it's
> frustratingly hard to do any useful trouble-shooting. I thought that
> they might be caused by a corrupt memory-module, and so I ran memtest
> for the best part of a day. However it found no errors.
>
> I know that this much doesn't provide a lot of information to go on,
> and I apologize for that. But does anyone know of ways to work on a
> problem such as this?
>
> I'd be really grateful for any tips or pointers.
>
> Jim
I had a similar problem before. If I wasn't running X, the computer had no
problem. If I did run X, it would freeze completely after a random amount
of time. It would even freeze running Knoppix. I eventually discovered
that the video card didn't properly support the resolution I was using,
even though it would display properly. Have you tried using the vesa
driver?
Justin Guerin
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