Re: KDE freezes after apt-get upgrade

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

dbalder@pacbrands.com.au wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday I finally got to upgrade my woody box. Later I noticed that the
> system froze when I was performing apt-get upgrade from debian security
> repository (whish was not available before).
>
> Has anybody else notice this? The problem happened while I was opening a
> pdf file from my email. I tried to save it and the system got frozen. I
> waited about 10-15 minutes and then I had to reset.
>
> The same problem happened after I restarted. I continued to upgrade the
> system and the system froze while I was downloading my email (this should
> not be *that* demanding I thought).
>
> I didn't try this with gnome. I found this started happening after I
> upgraded a lot of kde-related stuff... I am still to upgrade quite a few
> packages from seciruty.debian.org. Could this be the cause of this
> temporary instability?
>
> Just wondering....
>
>
> TIA
>
> Davor
>
>
>
>  
Does the whole machine lock up, or just X? Can you Ctrl-Alt-F2 to the 
second virtual terminal? Can you telnet/ssh in to the box? Can you ping 
the box?

If "no" to the last two questions, do you have an eepro100 NIC? I ask, 
because I have a machine that kept locking up totally during network 
activity; turned out to be a bug in the NIC driver; had to use a utility 
(don't remember which now, but it's apt-gettable) to change a setting in 
the NIC's PROM, which solved the problem.

Kent