On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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? >
I have a very similar problem. Nothing happens on the screen and the mouse and the keyboard does not seem to do anything. However, I remember that one an mp3 that was playing in the background continued playing. I have a Mandrake 8.1 with all the updates (minus the kernel). It happened with KDE 2.2.2, and once since I switched to GNOME. Regards, Shlomi Fish > 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] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." "Wait a second - is n a natural number?" ================================================================= 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]