Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Kernel lockups with 2.0.3x | Date | Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:23:57 +0100 (BST) |
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> trouble, however, once I start up X, that is when the trouble > starts - well... maybe.. maybe not... I have used X for 3 days > straight and not had a lockup or screwup. But now and then, I > get a number of freezups. At first, they were fixable by > shutting down X and restarting, now my system goes totally dead.
But you need to run X to trigger it. That pretty much has to be either an X11 or hardware bug
> noise. I must assume that the machine totally locked. There is > nothing written about the incident in any of the files under > /var/log.
(Seeing if it answers network traffic is a good bet)
> when the screen twisted, displayed a screwed up KDE desktop, and > then locked hard.
Well yes, I agree with your opinion about the KDE desktop (ok that was cheap)
When you say "screwed up" how do you mean
> I tried to telnet in from my 486 over PLIP, and couldn't connect. > No ping either.
Ok. That froze
That does all sound like hardware or X or combination problems rather than Linux.
Some suggestions to help pin it down:
o If you have a spare video card or one you can swap with another box then swap it and see what occurs o Leave the box contiually doing things for 2 or 3 days and see it it dies - the rc5 distributed.net cracking client will let you do something 'useful' ;) as that. THis will keep the CPU warm.. o Run badblocks over all your disks. I doubt very much you are seeing a disk crash caused by a badblock thats either deep in your swap or in something like an X font file but it pays to check o If you have RH 5.0 handy run metroX instead of XFree and see what happens. Just that varying the X server may give clues
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