>> > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X
>> >
>> > It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond.
Usually
>> > it's instant, but it wasn't in this case.
>>
>> A second is more like it. You've got something stealing cycles in a big
way!
>
>The problem is that a _lot_ of different things can cause these
>temporary lockups in which the only thing that'll be noticed by the
>computer is a power failure (intentional or otherwise). Let's see... I
>had this problem while playing with xfontsel under GNUstep and fvwm2 on
>a system running Red Hat 5.0. It's probably important that you know
>that this is on a 486SX/25MHz machine with 24MB actual RAM. There don't
>appear to be any disk accesses or other little noises indicating
>anything going under the hood. If any real processing is going on, it's
>all in RAM. I noticed a fvwm2 error log file in ~/andy today. I read
>it: It was a huge list of /tmp files it tried deleting but couldn't
>since I didn't have permission to. I wonder if that has anything to do
>with these lockups.
Does your system stay running long enough for the cron jobs to process?
You could have a ton of temp files and stuff waiting to be dumped.
Brian
