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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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