Re: System crashes for no apparent reason

2012-06-07 Thread Dan Hitt
try something like this to kill X from starting > > mv S04xdm s04xdm (depending on whether you use gdm or xdm of course :) > > > then init wont boot the gui, I'm pretty sure that works anyway > > > >> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:26:15 -0700 >> Subject: Re: System cr

RE: System crashes for no apparent reason

2012-06-07 Thread Nathan D'elboux
xdm of course :) then init wont boot the gui, I'm pretty sure that works anyway > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:26:15 -0700 > Subject: Re: System crashes for no apparent reason > From: dan.h...@gmail.com > To: karl.jorgen...@nice.com > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >

Re: System crashes for no apparent reason

2012-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 07 iun 12, 22:26:15, Dan Hitt wrote: > > I don't suppose there's some kind of boot option i can set because > X runs on top of the kernel, but i suppose that somewhere, somehow > i can tell the system that the next time it comes up to not bring up X? If you use gdm then booting with option

Re: System crashes for no apparent reason

2012-06-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > An experiment which may exclude the video drivers from the equation: > Try NOT starting X ?  If it still crashes without X ever being > started, then it points towards the problem being elsewhere... Hi Karl, A real dumb question for you

Re: System crashes for no apparent reason

2012-06-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 06:14:33AM +0100, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am running a reasonably up-to-date Squeeze box (it has been a few days > since I did an aptitude update and safe-upgrade). This problem has > actually been occurring sporadically for a few weeks now. The system > will simply die

Re: System crashes for no apparent reason

2012-06-06 Thread Keith McKenzie
I would open the box & ensure all connections are secure, re seat the ram, close the box, check the ram; then look elsewhere. On 06/06/2012, ACro wrote: > Hello Marc, > > maybe this is a hardware problem? I'm not a hardware guru, but in the > past I've had problems with power supply units gettin

Re: System crashes for no apparent reason

2012-06-06 Thread ACro
Hello Marc, maybe this is a hardware problem? I'm not a hardware guru, but in the past I've had problems with power supply units getting unstable and causing the system to crash (with subsequent reboot) with no apparent reason: replacing the power unit solved the problem. I had also defective har