Re: Linux freezing up
I am using Netscape glibc 4.61 right now, quite unstable (window closing
stuff). I have the lastests gnome using apt-get from cybertrails.com, as well
as enlightenment. I update/dist-upgrade almost daily. I don't use
gnome/kde/enlightenment, even though I have them installed. I use WindowMaker.
I don't really think it is a windowmanager/browser problem. I would rather a
think the X server, or hardware. Yet, the kernel is working fine (I can ping),
but the software on top is not running: ftpd and telnetd don't work.
This freezing up is not a daily occurence for me; I have been up for 2 weeks
before it froze (or I bumped the power cord :-p )
On 03-Aug-99 Raphael clancy wrote:
> hmm sounds familliar, I had a very similar system, which would lock up
> completly while using netscape (version 4.08-4.6). I found that upgrading
> gnome from 1.0 to 1.06 fixed the problem. There are instructions on the gnome
> website on how to add them to your sources list, then you can use apt to get
> the newest version.
>
>>>> Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com> 08/03 1:14 AM >>>
> Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> I've had similar problems that weren't limited to potato or
> 2.2.10, they happened when I ran slink and a 2.0.36 kernel too. I
> also had a similar setup as you: amd-k62 250, kernel 2.2.10, and
> an epox mobo.
>
> My system would lock up hard, I couldn't even ping the net from
> my windows box. I can't count how many times I gave the old three
> finger salute to my system.
>
> I thought it was netscape that gave me all the problems, and it
> did seem to be a common denominator. I tried different
> windowmanagers too with the same results. Last week I through in
> the towel and dropped my 333 MHz celeron into my box and I've had
> almost no problems (today it crapped out for some reason). I'm
> running a libc5 version of netscape and I'm using Enlightenment
> and gnome for X.
>
> So, I guess I'm trying to say is that you're not alone :)
> --
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