Re: System freezes unexpectedly
Chris Mayes wrote:
>
> Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence,
> but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't
> much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've encountered
> a system freeze, the screen had been blanked, so I couldn't see the desktop.
> For the most recent time, I was actually sitting at my desk working on stuff
> when the system froze. Everything stopped. I couldn't kill the X server or
> switch consoles. The thing was totally frozen. I've checked the logs, but I
> didn't see anything special. In syslog, messages, user.log, etc., it looks
> just like normal messages until crash time with boot messages following. Does
> anyone have any suggestions for diagnosing and possibly fixing this problem?
> I am running Debian Potato (Last full update was the middle of June) on Kernel
> 2.2.6. TIA!
When I had a similar problem, it was fixed by turning off xdm and using
startx to start my x sessions. I have no idea why. It seems to be a bug,
but one that's so infrequent that it hasn't yet happened to somebody
with the X or kernel experience to figure out why it happens and fix it.
It's worth a try, anyway.
HTH,
Stuart.
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