Re: Linux freezing up
----- Original Message -----
From: Wim Kerkhoff <wim@netmaster.ca>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM
Subject: Linux freezing up
> 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 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?
>
> I'm running:
> -Kernel 2.2.10
> -Potato
> -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard
>
> Thanks,
> ---------------------------
> Wim Kerkhoff
> wim@netmaster.ca
> www.canadianhomes.net/wim
> ICQ: 23284586
>
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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??
Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger.
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