Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 09:44, Azrael wrote:
> My system hung and required rebooting 3 times so far today.. and I
> believe the cause was using dvdrip to encode something. How do I make
> sure, and also find the exact reason dvdrip is doing this? What logfiles
> should I be looking at, and what should I be looking for in them?
> 
> many thanks

Don't feel like the lone ranger.  Check your ~/.xsession-errors file and
your /var/log/XFree86.0.log file for errors.

Su to root in an Eterm window and start up logdrake.  Search your
"messages" and/or "syslog" for the keyword "errors".

These are good starting points.  Good luck.

--LX

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