justin bengtson wrote:

> so, how many geeks are out there this morning coding or trying to get
> FlightGear working?

I'm trying to get an Icecast server going this morning.

I installed Globecom Jukebox over the last couple of days, and
successfully ripped one CD (just 799 CDs to go (-: ).  But so far, I
haven't heard it actually play anything.  Need icecast to get the
sound to a machine with speakers.

> i am having a problem with my system whereby i will come back to my
> computer after a time and it will be hard locked.  i can't even crash X,
> it's that bad.  symptoms occur most often when XMMS is left on, and
> sometimes when i have it shut off (leads me to believe that it isn't
> neccesarily a software problem...)  symptoms started when i after i
> reinstalled the system with a new video card and sound card (so it could
> be either, or the hard drives...)

Don't worry.  It'll all be better in a couple of days when you wipe
the disk and install a completely different OS. (-:

If you have a second computer, pinging the crashed box is useful.
When a Unix/Linux box responds to a ping, it happens inside the TCP/IP
stack.  If you get a pong back, then you know that the box is
accepting interrupts and able to run them.  That means the problem is
probably outside the kernel.

Otherwise, you know you have a wedged kernel, and either you've
created a bad kernel config (Hi, Mike!), installed a buggy driver, or
the kernel just has bugs (which never happens, because this is Linux!
*-: )

Another good test is switching to a different virtual console.
CTL-ALT-F1 through F9.  But buggy X servers sometimes break that.

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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