Re: Linux freezing up
Maybe this is related, maybe not (K6-2/350, kernel 2.2.x and potato seem
to be common factors in this thread):
I have an occasional X lockup. It was more prevalent when I was using
icewm-gnome as my wm. I could get it to consistently happen after
defining a menu entry for vmware (upon exit from vmware). X was grabbing
all the cpu resources. The only way out was to telnet in from another
box and reboot.
I changed my wm to blackbox and it hasn't happened since, although I
occasionally (rarely) lose my cursor after exiting vmware or navigator
4.61. ctrl-alt-backspace always works in this case to kill X. Otherwise
navigator has been pretty stable for me, unlike some others.
Bob
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:06:32AM -0000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
> 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 :)
> > --
>
> ---------------------------
> Wim Kerkhoff
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>
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