On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:55:13AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > My home-debian-box starts to behave rather odd lately, now and then it > will freeze completely. > > The only thing working is ICMP, I can´t even get a TCP connection open, > the screen is frozen, neither mouse nor keyboard will generate any > event. > > I´ve already tried changing all I have on spare (read RAM and graphics > adapter). > > Since there´s not even a single syslog-entry, I don´t really know where > to start debugging. Would it make sense if I installed the "software > watchdog" into the kernel in this case, so that the machine would > (eventually) reboot when it hangs? This would be great because I´ll be > on a trip next week and my girl-friend needs the debian-box as gateway/ > mailserver in the meantime... What kernel version? Are you running Samba? I had a long string of mysterious hangs with 2.2.14 and smbfs finally resolved by upgrading to 2.2.15. You *should* UG to 2.2.16 for security reasons. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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