RE: Debian Crash
what version of Netscape were you using ? The latest 4.5 or the older 4.0.
I recently installed the 4.5 on my SMP system and have been having system
freezes happening at least once a day.
On 11-Nov-98 Rich Harran. wrote:
> My Debian system just crashed. This has never happened before, which is
> one of the things I like about Linux.
>
> I've got a pretty standard Hamm system, and I was running X with emacs
> (20), xmix, and netscape, with a navigator and mail window open. I went
> on a webpage I've visited many times before (www.tomshardware.com), and
> everything seized up: the mouse wouldn't move, I couldn't move between
> virtual desktops and I couldn't move between virtual teminals. I waited a
> couple of minutes, then tried <cntl><alt><backspace>, then
> <cntl><alt><del>, neither of which had any effect whatsoever, so I
> pressed the big red button, and restarted that way.
>
> The only non-Debian software I have installed is xaudio, an X window mpeg
> layer 3 audio player, which is off /root/mpeg (I was just trying it out).
> My hardware is an old(ish) Cyrix 6x86 (M1) P200+ on a SuperMicro P5xtra
> motherboard, 32mb DRAM (2simms), Matrox millenium 4mb, WD harddrive,
> mitsumi Cd rom, soundblaster awe64 pnp, microsoft serial mouse.
>
> Up 'till now, everything seems to have been working fine (I've had random
> crashes under win95, but I think that's a feature of the OS).
>
> My questions:
>
> Is there a problem with my hardware (it's quite old)?
> Was there a problem with Linux?
> If not, is there now?
> If so, how do I fix it?
> What should I do to test the components in my system individually?
> I put it together myself (about 2 years ago), so I don't
> mind poking around inside.
>
>
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E-Mail: Geoffrey L. Brimhall <brimhall@pobox.com>
Date: 11-Nov-98
Time: 14:43:55
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