Another quick indicator for me is to hit the num lock key and see if the light goes on or off - if the whole machine is locked, the light will be stuck. If it's not stuck, you should be able to hit ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X. I don't think that's a distribution specific or WM-specific key-combo, but I really don't know - it's worked for me when something has hung X (for example an open web-page that has some quirky flash or other plug-in media in it).
- Jason L. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen Brown > Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:19 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Random freezes > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
