In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Hachinger) writes:
>
> ----- 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 I 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?
With the exception of being perfectly able to telnet/ftp I've had
the exact same problem myself. It turned out that it was 'just' my
Xserver crashing. So I'm going to ask a potentially stupid question
just to make sure: You can telnet/ftp into it under normal conditions
right?
[snip]
> 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??
Yes, I thought so too.
> Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger.
>
>
/Patrik.
