Re: Freeze on Caplock in kile

[Peter Robinson <peter.robinson@t-online.de>]

Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am running the latest unstable system. Three times in the last week 
> my machine comnpletely froze up while I was using Kile, seemingly 
> after hitting the shift key (?). The two LEDs on the upper right of 
> the keyboard then start blinking, the mouse and everything else 
> freezes (i.e., it is not possible to restart X but I needed to 
> poweroff the computer manually). I havent experienced this since the 
> good old days of the blue screen of death of Windows 98, where such 
> events at least had a comforting sense of regularity to them :-0.
>
> Any ideas how to trouble shoot this?
>
> Thanks, Peter
It keeps getting better....now my computer beeped three times and 
everything went black (i.e., the computer shut itself off). I had a look 
at tail /var/log/messages, the last line was:


Mar 21 10:33:20 peter kernel: warning: process `nginx' used the 
deprecated sysctl system call with 1.33.


Could that have anything do to with my problems or does this sound more 
like a hardware issue?

-Peter