Yeah, I actually went after hardware first. I completely replaced the computer. The only thing copied between them was $HOME for my personal account.
Thus spake John Cichy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:05:28 -0400 > From: John Cichy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: WM Suggestions > X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) > > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:01:40 -0600 > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Although this is not a window manager suggestion, I would like to offer > something that I just went through. I experenced 'random' hangs and was > blaming the WM after changing to another, still experenced the same thing, > made another change still same problem. Although I was not running a dual > system, I was running an AMD Athlon 950 w/768megs ram, so I could not > understand why this was happening across the board. Then finely on one of > these 'random' hand the system would not come back up, one of the drives had > failed. After removing the drive, I have not had a problem (knocking on every > piece of wood I can find ;-) sence, and I have tried all the WM again. It > seems that the drive was getting ready to fail and would randomly 'choke', > but on reboot would start up again. > > Not sure if this will help, but... > John > > > > > > > Ok, running gnome at work. Been useing Sawfish-gnome as my window > > manager. I'm having problems with the system hanging randomly with no > > error messages, etc. The only thing I haven't eliminated yet is sawfish > > and gnome. Anyone have any suggestions on a good gnome-compliant window > > manager, preferably one that's semi-light weight as I'm running on a > > dual p2-450 with 512 megs of ram. > > > > > > :wq! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Robert L. Harris | Micros~1 : > > Senior System Engineer | For when quality, reliability > > at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't > > \_ that important! > > DISCLAIMER: > > These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. > > FYI: > > perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer | For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

