Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:44:54 -0500, Paul Reavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was working on some large (600dpi) images with lots of layers in the > > > Gimp, and had bumped up its image cache to 256MB to reduce > > > swapping. In the middle of a large copy, it froze x and, as far as I > > > could tell, the whole machine - it responded to pings but not > > > telnet. I left it overnight and came back the next day; it was still > > > hung. So I had to hard reset the machine, yuck. > > > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't work? (or do you have that turned off?). I > > found that the OOM killer in 2.4.14 works... Was running a process > > that sucked up huge amounts of memory, and boom "Killed" was printed > > in the terminal. Subsequent attempts to run the program returned > > immediately with "out of memory errors", even though the system > > had reclaimed the memory (guess the kernel tracks these errant > > programs for a little while...). > > > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't work, neither did cntrl-alt-delete. In > general these both work. I'm using gnome-panel, enlightenment, and a > fair pile of stuff - it's my work/development machine. So narrowing > this down is hard. See my other post - I'm getting crashes besides the > gimp, so now think it might be a kernel, X or hardware problem. > > Essentially it freezes, accepts no input, but X image stays up - ping > works, but telnet and ssh do not, so no way to get in and terminate > gracefully.
I would suspect a video card/driver problem. I've had a fair amount of similar problems using nvidia's proprietary drivers. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
