diagnosing system crash

2003-09-02 Thread mukherjee_amit
Hi, I have just installed RH9. I find that the machine crashes all of a sudden or just freezes. Since it is not a graceful shutdown, the filesystems don't get synced and this causes a lot of grief when I boot the system again. Are there any logs that I can check which will give me some insight

problem with GNOME desktop

2003-09-02 Thread mukherjee_amit
Hi, I am having a problem with GNOME. I find that after logging in, if I lock the screen and don't work on the computer for a while, I automatically get logged out and come back to the login screen. I did not face this problem with 7.1. Is there some configuration that I need to do for this. T

problem with telnet on RH 9

2003-09-02 Thread mukherjee_amit
Hi, I have just installed RH 9. I want to be able to telnet to the machine but whenever I try it says connection refused. The configuration file for telnet is present in /etc/xinetd.d and the value of disable is no. Could someone please help. Thanks Amit -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscr

problem with using HAndspring visor on RH 9

2003-09-02 Thread mukherjee_amit
Hi, I have just installed RH9 and I want to use my Handspring Visor. I started gnome-pilot and followed the instructions. I pressed the hotsync button on the cradle but the communication was not established. My visor is connected on ttyUSB1. So I entered /dev/ttyUSB1 as the device to use. The de