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 ----------- "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. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
