try to run "gkrellm2" it might give you some hints if it is a hardware related problem on process related.
-- #Joseph On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 22:43 -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: > Hello all, > > Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a "zombie > machine" two times. Here are the symptoms: > > 1. Can't get the mouse to move on the screen > 2. See the time is several hours back (the time that is displayed in > the panel) > 3. Can't ssh into the box to find out what might be causing the > system to be unresponsive. > 4. Can't ping the box. > > When looking in /var/log in the critical and kernel sections I don't > see any warning messages. I've also looked in the Xorg and sshd logs > to see if there is anything in there to indicate what might be > happening, but I don't see anything. > > I've got a Pentium 4 (1300 Mhz), 768Mb RAM. I've had Gentoo on this > box for several months now (at least 9) and have not seen this problem > before (at least that I can remember). > > What log files might there be that might give some indications as to > the problem that might be causing the system to become unresponsive? > > Thank you, > > Shawn Singh > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
