tracking down a hard crash

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

Hi folks,

I'm having a problem with hard crashes on my box (sid, not quite up to
date).  They seem to happen in a variety of circumstances -- the
computer locks hard in an X session (running xfce4 usually) and is
inaccessible by ssh or any other.  If amarok is running at the time it
will sound as though a 1-second or shorter loop is playing; otherwise
the only indication is the disappearance of the cursor and a
nonfunctional keyboard/mouse.  OTher programs that have been running &
using a fair bit of cpu at thetime of crash include firefox &
dvd::rip, as well as openoffice and audacity.  

I've looked in /var/log/messages/ syslog/ and dmesg and don't see
anything special.  I suppose probably whatever is causing the crash is
also failing to give me the appropriate message.  What kinds of things
can I do to help identifiy the cause of the crash further?

thanks,

matt



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