On Wednesday 19 November 2003 11:35 am, Aaron Walker wrote: > I got home from work this morning (I work nights), to find my machine > locked up. This also happened the day before last. I could not switch > to any of the terminals (via ctrl-alt-F1, etc). I was able to login via > ssh from another pc, however. After running top, I noticed X was using > 99% cpu. Sending X the SIGKILL signal was the only way I could get back > into the box w/o rebooting. I'm kind of awestruck because I've used > linux for 6 or 7 years now and this is literally the first incident I've > had with anything locking up on me. It's happened twice so far, both > during the night while I was at work. I would think if it was an > overheating problem it would happen during the day while I am sleeping, > but it hasn't so far. > > Any ideas on what might be causing this?
what have been your last emerge just before the first incident? use genlop if you don't remember. no clue in your XFree86.0.log? -- mathieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
