-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 July 2004 22:49, Tim Raats wrote: > Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > >On Monday 26 July 2004 21:32, Tim Raats wrote: > >>Debian crashes on the strangest moments. Im running Sarge with > >> kernel 2.4.26. When im surfing the internet with Mozilla Firefox > >> 0.8, Debian sometimes crashes. > > > >Quick answer: Use a different version/build of Firefox. > > > >Now, are you sure the machine is "crashing"? What does that mean? > > Can you install the SSH server and login to it from a different > > machine, or ping its address, while it seems "crashed"? > > > >Sometimes a graphical application locks the keyboard and the user > >perceives this as a "crash", although it really isn't a system crash > > - it's the stupid X server not being able to accept input from the > > devices any more. If for example you leave some program with > > dynamic output (e.g. top) running in an xterm, do you still see it > > updating after the system becomes unresponsive? > > > >Make sure this isn't happening, try to get out of X with Ctrl-Alt-F1 > > and see if you can troubleshoot from there. > > > >>I dont know what the source of this problem is. Im > >>running KDE 3.2.3 also. Please I need help because if I want > >> crashes than I should install Window$ again. > > > >If instability is the only thing that annoys you in M$ products, > > then I agree with you; you really should. > > > >-A > > I also had this problem also with the version in unstable. I have > also tried ctrl-alt-F1 and it doesnt switch to tty1.
but did you also try, as suggested to you, to ping the box or ssh into the box from another host? - -- Frederik Dannemare | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: search for 'dannemare' on http://pgpkeys.mit.edu Key fingerprint: BB7B 078A 0DBF 7663 180A F84A 2D25 FAD5 9C4E B5A8 http://frederik.dannemare.net | http://www.linuxworlddomination.dk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBXgNLSX61ZxOtagRAtgKAJ9C5phqyK01+V7ffkuyGzBoczWQVwCfWJFf IuX8RDFXV5ESRGEvFdMqGXU= =dG0Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----