David Guntner wrote:
>J. Grant grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
>>press ctrl+alt+PrintScr then see the items
>>
>
>Could you be a little more specific, please? If I'm reading your above
>sentence correctly, it would seem that you're telling me that when my
>system is locked up and moving my mouse doesn't get the monitor to come out
>of power-saving mode like it usually does, that I should press
>cntrl+alt+PrintScrn to have it do something. Is that correct? If so, then
>I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how pressing those keys will do
>anything on a hung system, but I'm willing to give it a try the next time
>my system seizes up.
>
>BTW, I forgot to mention in my earlier message that none of the logs show
>anything at all at the time of the system hang. Nothing in
>/var/log/kernel/{anything}, nothing in /var/log/messages, nothing in any
>other log I try to look in. Right after the reboot, I'll go straight into
>the various log files and start scrolling back through the boot-up messages
>until I get to the last entries (identified by the jump in the timestamps)
>in those logs. Not a peep.
>
> --Dave
>
>>David Guntner wrote:
>>
>>>This isn't specifically a Mandrake thing, but I'm hoping that someone here
>>>can give me some pointers to help out.
>>>
>>>I'm running ML 8.1 on my Linux box, and for the last several days, my
>>>system as just stopped. Locked up pretty completely. I'll hit the reset
>>>button to restart the system, and it will run for more-or-less 24 hours and
>>>then just halt again. The motherboard is an Epox EP-MVP3G with an AMD
>>>K6-2 CPU in it. I was running a 550MHz chip, and fell back to an older
>>>350MHz chip thinking that it might be the CPU dieing on me, but that hasn't
>>>helped. I've run Memtest-86 on the machine, and it doesn't report problems
>>>with any of my RAM SIMMs. I'm beginning to have the Creeping Feeling Of
>>>Doom that the motherboard is dieing on me, but I'd like to get a second
>>>opinion before I go out hunting down another K6-2 compatible Socket 7
>>>motherboard. Educated opinions welcomed and appreciated. :-)
>>>
>>> --Dave
>>>
>>>
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Do you have an external connection and an ssh server?
Let's see whether it is a keyboard lockup or something else.
The ctrl-alt-printscr should sync stuff out to disk to give you a chance
to log the freeze-up.
Civilrmr
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