----- Original Message ----- From: Wim Kerkhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM Subject: Linux freezing up
> Hello, > > I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no > apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard > control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del don't > do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either. > > What did find kind of strange, though, it was still connected to my ISP via > modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network. I could ping it from a > win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it. I couldn't telnet/ftp into it > though, only ping and masq. > > I had an uptime of 12 days when this happened. It has done it before. Where > would the problem lie? Hardware? Kernel? > > I'm running: > -Kernel 2.2.10 > -Potato > -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard > > Thanks, > --------------------------- > Wim Kerkhoff > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.canadianhomes.net/wim > ICQ: 23284586 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Sounds like a processor overheat problem or so, I think. But it's quite strange that you could ping it. Isn't the processor needed for beeing pinged?? Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger.
