Re: Linux crashing often
Maybe it is just xwindows server or some graphical aplication that freez
dispaly manager. You can try some of this:
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPASE - this will kill display manager.
CTRL+ALT+F1 -this will switch you to terminal console, where you can
login and diagnostic problem.
See /var/log/SFree86.0.log if you find some arror there.
$df -will show you mounted disks, try to cd to some directory if it's
accesible.
Mayby you run some aplication that freez. Try to find out whitch
aplication can it be.
Dexter
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 04:00 -0800, Alex Goldman wrote:
> My Debian Sarge system crashes like daily (the last few days). The way
> it crashes is always the same: it feels as if the HD becoms
> inaccessible (I can switch between windows, but any command just
> hangs)
>
> After a reboot, everything is fine (until next crash).
>
> I tried to diagnose the problem:
>
> 1. ran memtest86 for 15 minutes, it found no errors (I think the whole
> test suite may take hours)
>
> 2. ran dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null, which finished without errors
>
> 3. tried to run fsck on /home, but it doesn't do anything useful, just
> returns immediately, saying the file system (ext3) is "clean"
>
> 4. tried to remount / read-only to run fsck on it too, but "/ is
> busy", and even then it's also ext3, so fsck probably wouldn't be
> useful
>
> QUESTIONS:
> How long is memtest86 supposed to take per Gig?
> How to test other hardware, especially the hard drive, motherboard?
> How to perform useful checks on ext3?
> How to fsck the root partition? I can't remount it ro, because it's busy.
>
>
> Any ideas? This is a relatively new machine, and I ran the
> unmentionable OS on it for months without any problems, so HW issues
> seem unlikely, and I'm already trying to diagnose them the best I can
> (see above).
>
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