Bill, You know it's happened (The freeze up) 3 times and I needed my computer up in a hurry so I didn't even look for that. OTOH I have a wireless logitech kb & mouse. Would that still work the same way?
Dennis On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 14:38 -0700, Bill Cunningham wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
