Re: Debian Crash
On the same topic, I've recently had a crash in debian -- one that I've
had before in Redhat 4. I've a very funky, self-built system... the crash
is like this (and sometimes its like clockwork):
1. boot with xdm. Log in.
2. <Ctrl><Alt><F[1...6]> to switch to a different terminal.
3. Log in, do my stuff, log out.
4. <Ctrl><Alt><F[7,8]> to either return to X or look at the console log...
it will never get to X (or the console log)... the video freezes blank and
that's that.
I doubt anyone could tell, just by description, what that problem is, so
I'm looking for a good way to try and trace it. Trying to telnet in from
a remote site is a good idea (it could mean the box is up, and something
driving my screen died), I'll try. I'm fishing for other possibilities.
(??? Please)
:)
--
quiet rob
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"Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Rich Harran. wrote:
> My Debian system just crashed. This has never happened before, which is
> one of the things I like about Linux.
>
> I've got a pretty standard Hamm system, and I was running X with emacs
> (20), xmix, and netscape, with a navigator and mail window open. I went
> on a webpage I've visited many times before (www.tomshardware.com), and
> everything seized up: the mouse wouldn't move, I couldn't move between
> virtual desktops and I couldn't move between virtual teminals. I waited a
> couple of minutes, then tried <cntl><alt><backspace>, then
> <cntl><alt><del>, neither of which had any effect whatsoever, so I
> pressed the big red button, and restarted that way.
>
> The only non-Debian software I have installed is xaudio, an X window mpeg
> layer 3 audio player, which is off /root/mpeg (I was just trying it out).
> My hardware is an old(ish) Cyrix 6x86 (M1) P200+ on a SuperMicro P5xtra
> motherboard, 32mb DRAM (2simms), Matrox millenium 4mb, WD harddrive,
> mitsumi Cd rom, soundblaster awe64 pnp, microsoft serial mouse.
>
> Up 'till now, everything seems to have been working fine (I've had random
> crashes under win95, but I think that's a feature of the OS).
>
> My questions:
>
> Is there a problem with my hardware (it's quite old)?
> Was there a problem with Linux?
> If not, is there now?
> If so, how do I fix it?
> What should I do to test the components in my system individually?
> I put it together myself (about 2 years ago), so I don't
> mind poking around inside.
>
>
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