On Friday 30 May 2003 9:42 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:23, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 30 May 2003 5:32 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > While on the subject of lockups, the only problem I've had is > > when trying to use my filmscanner - for which 9.1 says it has a > > driver. I changed to the multimedia kernel, but the same thing > > happened there. Sooner or later I will try a later kernel. > > > > What I would really like to do is to close everything I can, then > > set something going that would cause an orderly shutdown in, say > > 5 minutes which would be no problem if was ok, but would get me > > out of a crash. Logically, though, if I have a situation where > > neither mouse nor keyboard is responding, I presume that it means > > there is a runaway process that is taking all resources, so it > > wouldn't work. Is that right? > > > > Anne > > Right enough... but it is possible that X is locked up but not the > box so to speak. I think (but could be wrong) that if you used > shutdown with a timer setting of 5 minutes it would still be able > to shut the box down because it has priority. (if the runaway > process is not a kernel bug) Somewhere I seem to remember someone > talking about a process they have running on a server that looks > for lockup situations and reboots the box if it finds one > happening. Annoying as heck but possibly useful in this case. > I think when the time comes I should try that. If it's a kernel bug I'm no worse off. If it's X that's locked up then it should shut down properly with much less risk of damage. > I've had lockups with 9.1 as described and but mine where all > related to tmdns and the fact that /etc/hosts kept getting reset to > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > instead of what I needed it to be. Removing tmdns from my box > along with zcip (some zeroconf stuff) then manually making this as > my hosts file > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 127.0.0.1 jamlap.linuxpda.biz jamlap > > Cured all the lockups I had associated with gnome and gnome > applications. > > James Knowing the problems that others had come across I chose not to install a firewall. I have a firewall on the router, so didn't feel it essential. My hosts file remains as I made it 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.30 anne-linux.lydgate.net anne-linux Anne
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