Re: Linux crashes a lot
what kinda box ? i've never had this happen..never had netscape take
down a machine..ever. possible the machine is running out of memory ??
how much ram/swap u got ?
nate
John Reinke wrote:
>
> Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot.
>
> It commonly seems to coincide with Netscape crashing, but it almost always
> takes the whole system with it. I can't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or change to
> another console. Occasionally I can telnet into the box and try to kill X,
> but it never works. I always end up having to hit the reset button, which
> doesn't make me happy. Twice, it has crashed while running dselect from a
> console.
>
> I need to use a "real" web browser, which seems to mainly be Netscape. I
> shouldn't be forced not to use Netscape, just so my box doesn't crash -
> this is Linux after all. I've tried different window managers
> (Enlightenment, Afterstep, Windowmaker...), but that doesn't help.
>
> I've considered compiling the magic key combination into the kernel, but
> it's the crashing or rebooting that I'd like to avoid in the first place.
>
> Other than not using Netscape, or disabling java or javascript (that helps,
> but not totally), what can/should I do to keep from crashing so often?
> Right now, it seems to crash about every other day.
>
> Additionally, I had something else weird happen today. I couldn't log into
> my box from another machine, xdm, or a console, but it was still running
> IPMasq services, etc. I finally had to reset it, since I couldn't get into
> it at all. It would never complete the validating process. The kernel logs
> showed the output like I see sometimes when it crashes and I'm at the
> console - several lines of addresses and numbers. Any suggestions to
> prevent this from happening again would also be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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