Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > > I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no > apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard > control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del > don't > do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either. > > What did find kind of strange, though, it was still connected to my ISP via > modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network. I could ping it from a > win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it. I couldn't telnet/ftp into it > though, only ping and masq. > > I had an uptime of 12 days when this happened. It has done it before. Where > would the problem lie? Hardware? Kernel? > > I'm running: > -Kernel 2.2.10 > -Potato > -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard
I've had similar problems that weren't limited to potato or 2.2.10, they happened when I ran slink and a 2.0.36 kernel too. I also had a similar setup as you: amd-k62 250, kernel 2.2.10, and an epox mobo. My system would lock up hard, I couldn't even ping the net from my windows box. I can't count how many times I gave the old three finger salute to my system. I thought it was netscape that gave me all the problems, and it did seem to be a common denominator. I tried different windowmanagers too with the same results. Last week I through in the towel and dropped my 333 MHz celeron into my box and I've had almost no problems (today it crapped out for some reason). I'm running a libc5 version of netscape and I'm using Enlightenment and gnome for X. So, I guess I'm trying to say is that you're not alone :) -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org