Re: Linux freezing up
On 03-Aug-99 Patrik Magnusson wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 000901bedd8c$0f007240$2a64fd91@arcor>,
> sh@arcormail.de (Stephan Hachinger) writes:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Wim Kerkhoff <wim@netmaster.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no
>>> apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard
>>> control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del
>>> don't do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either.
>>>
>>> What I did find kind of strange, though, it was still connected to my ISP
>>> via modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network.
>>> I could ping it from a win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it.
>>> I couldn't telnet/ftp into it though, only ping and masq.
>>> I had an uptime of 12 days when this happened. It has done it before.
>>> Where would the problem lie? Hardware? Kernel?
>
> With the exception of being perfectly able to telnet/ftp I've had
> the exact same problem myself. It turned out that it was 'just' my
> Xserver crashing. So I'm going to ask a potentially stupid question
> just to make sure: You can telnet/ftp into it under normal conditions
> right?
Yep, no problems before, or now after rebooting. From the Windows box, I
telneted to a shell account at my ISP, and from there I could ping
wim.dhis.org, a hostname for my dynamic IP. So... ping is working, and the
kernel is still working fine, because it is forwarding IP's properly.
The "three-fingered salute" mentioned by someone else did not work. Basically,
the keyboard/mouse were dead.
Before this motherboard, I had an Asus P5A with an intel 740 AGP Real 3d
starfighter, and that was continually locking up, even in Windows 98.
I am not overclocking, just running at normal board speed of 100mhz x 3.5. I
have a fan on the cpu, and a power supply fan. Do I need another case fan?
I was using the netscape, just html pages.
>
> [snip]
>> Sounds like a processor overheat problem or so, I think. But it's quite
>> strange that you could ping it. Isn't the processor needed for beeing
>> pinged??
>
> Yes, I thought so too.
I am running the seti@home stuff fulltime. I was gone for a week, and a couple
of those running, but there were not problems when I got back.
>
>> Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger.
>>
>>
> /Patrik.
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Wim Kerkhoff
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