Re: Machine freezes almost deterministically
I would try another keyboard. Just a thought.
Quoting Merdad Akyol <merdad@xmail.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not really sure if this is a problem of Debian, but I'll give it a try
> here. I'm
> using Debian Sparc 3.0_r2 out-of-the-ISOs on an Ultra 450. After some minor
> problems
> the basic system seems to be running decently, so I planned to install some
> additional
> debs (also from the official ISOs) using dselect.
> Unfortunately this turned out to be rather time-consuming: When I hit the
> PgDown-key in
> the selection menu, my box froze and wouldn't react on any input from the
> keyboard (but
> I could still toggle the keyboard's LEDS). Several reboots later (it's hard
> to get
> unused to the PgDown-Key) I am convinced that this behaviour is _almost_
> deterministic.
> Once or twice the box would survive a keypress on PgDown and seldomly it
> would freeze
> after (multiple fast) keypresses on the "normal" down-key. At the last freeze
> I was
> additionally logged in via ssh and the box didn't respond in the ssh session
> either.
> Finally I ditched dselect and decided to give aptitude a try (fortunately it
> starts
> with an "a", so I could install it without too many key-downs :-)). But after
> the first
> PgDown in aptitude the box froze again.
> I could possibly manage to install my system by avoiding the evil PgDown-Key,
> but later
> on the box should be running really stable. So I would rather fix this
> behaviour. Any
> hints/suggestions?
> TIA, Merdad
>
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