Necrotica wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Over the last couple of days Mandrake has been hanging on me for no apparent
> reason. In the last 2 hours it has hung on me 3 times, forcing me
> to power off my machine. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or
> reason as to why its happening.
>
> Where is a good place to start troubleshooting this? I am starting to get
> real frustrated with it and would like to get it fixed. Are there logs that I
> can go through? Anything at all? Thanks...
>
> -Chris
Try hitting the ctrl-alt-F2 to see if that will bring up the text
logon screen. If it does, then hop back into your previous session with
an ctrl-alt-F7, to see if you're "unhung".
One other thing I've noticed, sporadically, is that some process will
just seem to go nuts, something like ld-lo.so2 or something, and will
take up nearly 100% of your cpu and memory. If you can bring up another
destop and a terminal window and run TOP, you'll see this guy and his
pid. Do a kill -9 on that pid and, while your Netscape session (in my
case, usually) will suddenly disappear, at least it's better than
powering off.
Why does this happen? I don't know, just as I don't know why sometimes
the cursor will suddenly freeze, forcing me to do the F2-F7 dance. I
wish someone would find a cure for the problem rather than the symptoms!
--
Larry Varney
Cold Spring, KY
http://w3.one.net/~lvarney
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