Dennis, That reminds me, was the numlock or capslock light blinking?
If so thats a kernel panic warning. - Bill --- James Washer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the best simple test for life is to hit the > caps-lock key, and see if the caps-lock LED comes on.. If > it doesn't.. the box is in pretty sad shape. > > - jim > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:36:29 -0700 > Ben Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:16:16AM -0700, Dennis Bagley > wrote: > > > > > > Ideas? Recommendations? > > > > it may only be X freezing up on you. sometimes > ctrl+alt+f1 or > > ctrl+alt+bckspc works to get out of a frozen X session. > > > > maybe some process on the box has found a way to use > all userspace > > processing cycles. icmp packets are handled at a very > low level in the > > OS... so often when a system isn't responsive and > can't even be > > connected to with ssh, it will still respond to pings. > that's a good > > test. > > > > keyboard events, I think, are also handled at a very > low level but if X > > is frozen then you won't see any echo. need a console > for that. > > > > are you getting any messages in the logs that might > give a clue? > > sometimes you'll see a kernel oops. when my laptop > crashes because of > > my windows nic driver I see in the logs messages about > about packets > > that are too large. or disk read errors/timeouts... > stuff like that. > > > > I hear compiling a kernel is a good way to test memory. > if your > > compiler segfaults (sig11), you probably have a bad > stick. I've heard > > this can be more reliable then memtest programs. > > > > - Ben > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > Bill Cunningham Cell: (775) 813-6892 http://www.cunndev.net _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
