Björn Elwhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please check the mailing list archives. If i don't remember wrong > i've heard about a package that breaks after a certain time, a bug > that is resolved now. I don't remember which package it was but you > could at least try to find something about it.
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:57:59AM +0200, Jean Orloff wrote: > > > > 1) My problem: > > > > I have happily used debian since 1995 (0.93R6 if I recall?). But > > since I installed 2.1 on my new PC at work, about a year ago, that > > machine undergoes about a crash per month in average. Nothing to > > scare a windblows user, of course, but unbearable for someone who > > knows this should not be so. Especially as these crashes are > > unrecoverable: screen frozen, mouse/keyboard frozen (no vt > > switching nor clean reboot possible) and even no access from > > outside through the network. Thus no alternative to the brutal > > power switchoff, with subsequent fsck'ing of the whole disk. Jean, Do you know the magic sysrq keys? Support must be compiled into the kernel. > > When does this happen? Always with a heavy load (2-3 users on a > > 128Mb pentium 400, each with several windows, netscape, emacs etc > > + some compilation or latex2html going on); always with at least > > one remote ssh login. I also sometimes had the impression of the > > mouse freezing temporarily before the total crash, but you know > > how short time causality can be violated in the human brain. I had exactly the same symptoms here (P-133, custom 2.2.17, potato, helix-gnome). Hasn't happened recently. Seems to have been a SW issue, and Bjoern is right. Or we're both hacked. -- Andre
