If you can no longer ssh in from another computer then it is
probably total lockup. Otherwise it isn't clear.
Generally I've had X lockups caused by netscape or mozilla.
Kill that app and everything clears up. Mozilla is better
than netscape, but it still causes problems.
--
Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as
my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to
use my telephone. --- Bjarne Stroustrup, CS prof, designer of C++
Martin Kelly wrote:
Nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg... I don't think it's the kernel,
thankfully.
Yeah, I wasn't able to do Ctrl+Alt+F6 to get to a virtual tty. Is X able
to free that up?
I've got 512MB ram and usually my RAM usage is between 75-200 (I'm
running XFCE too)... I don't think it's RAM. Also, things weren't slow
before the freeze, either time.
I just switched to amarok and I'm not getting crashes anymore. I'm
thinking it might've been XMMS's fault. I'd heard it was buggy, but
crashing a whole system? Also, I've been using XMMS for almost a year
and never had the problem... weird.
Martin
larry price wrote:
/var/log/messages might have something
if there were kernel messages they might show up in the output of dmesg
are you sure it wasn't strictly an X freeze up? (were you able to
suspend the X session and use a tty session to talk to the box?)
how much memory + swap do you have on the box? (if you are trying to
cram 2GB worth of activity into 128MB ram + 512MB swap that will slow
things to a crawl)
On 1/8/07, Martin Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey all,
I have just had my computer freeze twice within 10 minutes or so.
Activities: xorg, XMMS, firefox, apache serving a 60MB or so download.
Both times, the freeze happened when the person downloading from me was
at 14%... I don't know if this is a coincidence or not. Note these were
complete frezes, not just xorg freezes... it was very strange.
My question is if anybody knows what log files I might check to find the
cause of the freeze. Also, do you think it has something to do with the
downloading?
Thanks,
Martin
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