Hi, I hate questions that begin **sometimes such and such happens for no apparent reason**, but I have no choice but to ask. I do have a problem that occurs only now and then and I haven't been able to figure out why.
I sometimes find that my Linux Mandrake box has stopped reacting to the keyboard and to the mouse. I don't think it's a hardware problem since after re-booting, everything works. The machine is not dead since I can PING it from my kids Win98 machine. But since the machine has gone to sleep (APM), I have no screen and no way to interact with the machine, so I don't know what's causing this. I can't TELNET to the machine for the simple reason that my IPTABLES rules won't allow it. I thought of two possible ways to debug this, but I don't like either of them. One is to allow TELNET through the Firewall and maybe be able to log on remot ly to look for the problem. The other is to not use APM and then **maybe** I'll see some output on the screen. However I doubt this will help since I have no way of guessing on which virtual screen or bash session I can expect to see output. Does anyone have a better idea, or should I go with one of these? Also, has anyone ever experienced a similar problem? TIA //------------------------- Shlomo Solomon E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Date: 31-Dec-2001 Time: 18:10:18 Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 8.1 machine //------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
