on the console, i have seen that mandrake sometimes switches to hebrew with no good reason. ctrl+shift sloves this problem. (I need to say that it happens when I press some of the f's keys)
On 2001 December 31 &bet;,Monday 20:20, [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? > > 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] -- Your business will go through a period of considerable expansion. ================================================================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]