Re: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Alex Goldman wrote: > 1. ran memtest86 for 15 minutes, it found no errors (I think the whole > test suite may take hours) that is typically a waste of time, since you cannot do anythign else whiles is bz pretending to diag your system ( that used to work ) > 2. ran dd if

RE: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Steven Jones
ually spinning at a decent speed. Regards Thing -Original Message- From: Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 21 November 2005 8:34 a.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linux crashing often Alex Goldman wrote: > 1. ran memtest86 for 15 minutes, it found no errors

RE: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Steven Jones
Open up your box and look for swollen or leaking capacitors. Regards Thing -Original Message- From: Colin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 21 November 2005 8:34 a.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linux crashing often Alex Goldman wrote: > 1. ran memtest86

Re: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Colin
Alex Goldman wrote: 1. ran memtest86 for 15 minutes, it found no errors (I think the whole test suite may take hours) You should run the whole suite. I had some bad RAM and it only showed up in two of the later tests. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Arden
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:21:16 -0800 James Vahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Goldman wrote: > > My Debian Sarge system crashes like daily (the last few days). The > > way it crashes is always the same: it feels as if the HD becoms > > inaccessible (I can switch between windows, but any command

Re: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread James Vahn
Alex Goldman wrote: > My Debian Sarge system crashes like daily (the last few days). The way > it crashes is always the same: it feels as if the HD becoms > inaccessible (I can switch between windows, but any command just > hangs) Sounds like a drive problem, it should show up in the output of dme

Re: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:14:48AM -0800, Alex Goldman wrote: > How to perform useful checks on ext3? e2fsck -Cr -c /dev/xxx > How to fsck the root partition? I can't remount it ro, because it's busy. The easy way to check the root filesystem is to boot off another partition, or these d

Re: Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Dexter
Maybe it is just xwindows server or some graphical aplication that freez dispaly manager. You can try some of this: CTRL+ALT+BACKSPASE - this will kill display manager. CTRL+ALT+F1 -this will switch you to terminal console, where you can login and diagnostic problem. See /var/log/SFree86.0.log i

Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Alex Goldman
My Debian Sarge system crashes like daily (the last few days). The way it crashes is always the same: it feels as if the HD becoms inaccessible (I can switch between windows, but any command just hangs) After a reboot, everything is fine (until next crash). I tried to diagnose the problem: 1. ra

Linux crashing often

2005-11-20 Thread Alex Goldman
(ignore if duplicated, sorry, I have trouble posting) My Debian Sarge system crashes like daily (the last few days). The way it crashes is always the same: it feels as if the HD becoms inaccessible (I can switch between windows, but any command just hangs) After a reboot, everything is fine (unti