Moss,
Its too bad you reformatted your disks before asking this
question. There might have been some clues to this event in your logs.
I would say that the number one cause of such lockups would be
running beta or alpha level software. Were you running anything at the
bleeding edge?
Regards,
Kenneth
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, moss wrote:
> greetings,
>
> i'm running slack 4.0, have been for about a month now... on a p200 (mmx,
> as if that makes a diff), 64 megs of ram, and a somewhat sturdy usr
> external modem
>
> here's the problem... i was running window maker, alone, with a few apps
> open... was online, had maybe two netscape window's open, and a couple
> rxvt's... i started up licq, which had been running well for about a week
> or so, and then 'asked' it to go online... i then tried to access the main
> menu (still in licq), and everything locked up... the mouse was still able
> to move around, as if nothing went wrong... but i was not able to ctrl
> alt backspace the x server down, wasn't able to shut any app down, nor
> could i reboot the machine (safely) with ctrl alt del... nothing
> resopended.. i waited about two minutes, then had to hard reset the
> machine
>
> when i got back, i lost about forty megs in hd corruption, and it took out
> a fair amount of apps in /sbin... at that point, i wasn't about to mess
> around with a config like that, so i backed up, formatted, and
> reinstalled, from step one.. which is where i am now
>
> what i'd like to know is, what could have caused it to lockup that badly?
> problem with licq, or was that a coincidence? something with x perhaps
> ? i'm not looking forward to repeating the event, so any insight would be
> appreciated
>
> -- moss
>
>
