Mark L. Kahnt wrote: >On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 11:26, Michael Kahle wrote: >> I built the system using Woody, then 'upgraded' to testing on my >> workstation. I use this as my primary computer here at work. At the end of >> the day, when I go home, I lock X and take off. The next morning, the >> system is frozen. I can't do anything but shut the machine down by holding >> the power switch. I tried to ssh into the box but it timed out. So there >> was no way to shut it down gracefully. >> >> I have XFree86 installed, Gnome installed and am using the mga drivers from >> Matrox to support my dual screens. Where do I begin to troubleshoot this? > >You're not running it in a PC emulator on Windows, are you? ;)
nope! :) System: IBM ZPro, PXeon 933, 768MB, Debian > >I've heard of problems with locked screensavers in the past, and I >wouldn't be surprised if that *could* be a problem, but what is more >important is whether or not the system hangs at the same time each day >(potential cron job problem - check the tail of the back logs.) >Alternately, it could be a hardware problem from poor handling of acpi. I remember reading something about the screensaver problem to. FYI I am using the xmatrix xscreensaver. I'm not sure if the system hangs at the same time each day. If I look in the syslog I see this gap in time occor: /* Syslog Snip Nov 21 00:01:31 geocentric dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.100.254 port 67 Nov 21 00:01:31 geocentric dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.100.254 Nov 21 00:01:32 geocentric dhclient: bound to 192.168.100.7 -- renewal in 10800 seconds. Nov 21 00:08:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[2891]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Nov 21 00:21:33 geocentric -- MARK -- Nov 21 00:23:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[2909]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Nov 21 00:38:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[2920]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Nov 21 00:53:01 geocentric /USR/SBIN/CRON[2928]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Nov 21 09:42:46 geocentric syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart. Nov 21 09:42:46 geocentric kernel: klogd 1.4.1#10, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Nov 21 09:42:46 geocentric kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.18-bf2.4 Nov 21 09:42:47 geocentric kernel: Loaded 19371 symbols from /boot/System.map- 2.4.18-bf2.4. Nov 21 09:42:47 geocentric kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.18. Nov 21 09:42:47 geocentric kernel: Loaded 337 symbols from 12 modules. Nov 21 09:42:47 geocentric kernel: Linux version 2.4.18-bf2.4 (root@zombie) end snip */ You see? Nov 21 00:53:01 - cron problem? Then: Nov 21 09:42:46 - must have been when I got it running again. Because I had do forcibly shut it down I had errors on my disk. When it crashed I was doing a dump restore... :( Yea, it's been a shitty morning. So I had to run e2fsck to check / repair a bunch of inodes. So by the time the system had actually come back up this morning it may have been that time. ACPI - Humm... I am loading that module, although I don't have to! BTW Kernel version 2.4.18-bf2.4, I have not yet compiled a kernel for this machine. > >Could you provide when the last entries in your syslogs have been, and >anything of interest about your kernel (version, whether you roll your >own, etc.?) See above. Thanks for you time. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
