Re: Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Scott Thompson wrote:

> > Scott Thompson wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > <>Occasionally Debian just locks up. The same box has WinXP and SuSE
> > > 9.1 and Debian Sid. Each OS has its own hard drive. I have not 
> > > experienced
> >
> > > any locking up with the other two OSs.  I've looked in the logs in 
> > > /var/logs but can't find anything that seems significant. 
> > >      
> The box is connected to a cable modem and no other network.  The freezes
> have never occurred when using the web browser or email, but with a variety
> of other programs, such as synaptic, mplayer, kwrite.  Last night, the
> flying toaster screensaver was running when I went to bed, but had frozen
> during the night.
>
>
>  
I'd suggest getting completely out of X and shutting down any extraneous 
processes, and let it run overnight; if it locks up then, I'd suspect 
memory or heating issues (even though the other OSes don't exhibit the 
lockups). If it does not lock up, I'd leave all the processes except X 
working the next night. The third night I'd start X, but use a different 
window manager / environment, and don't start any other apps. Eventually 
you can maybe narrow down the problem.

--
Kent