On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 09:59:45PM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 31-Dec-2001 Ira Abramov wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> I sometimes find that my Linux Mandrake box has stopped reacting to > >> the keyboard and to the mouse. I don't think it's a hardware problem > >> since after re-booting, everything works. The machine is not dead > >> since I can PING it from my kids Win98 machine. But since the > > > > well, I have seen machines with all userspace processes frozen, but the > > IP stack still works (forwarding, pings, etc). it's a sad situation > > indeed. > sad yes - but what could be causing it?? > > > ctrl-alt-F1 and then ctrl-alt-del. maybe you can do a blind reboot and > > save your data. (use ReiserFS, anyway) > That was the first thing I tried. And the fact it didn't work was (to me) proof > that the keyboard and mouse were not being reacted to. I do use ReiserFS and > haven't lost any data, but that's probably not an issue anyway since this only > seems to happen when the machine has gone into suspend after a period of not > being used, so other than cron jobs, etc, there's minimal activity - therefore > probably no reason to lose any data. . .
A-ha! Try disabling APM and all power management, then. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
