On Sun, 22 May 2011 21:47:03 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop.
That's a quite old computer. > No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, > no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 > secs. although it seems longer, and it happens often, every couple of > minutes. And after the freeze it becomes responsive again? > It will also run really slow. Steady disk light and although I can > switch (slowly) between workspaces, nothing else can be done. Workspaces? Are you running a GUI-based system? > Any help will be greatly appreciated! I would discard a hardware error, and being frozen too often I would start with hard disks. You can load a LiveCD and keep it running a full day -no more freezes could mean the error is on the disk itself or at the controller- and also run "smartctl" test, long run. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.23.12.02...@gmail.com
