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From: Charles Radding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 9:45 PM
Subject: [expert] System crashes?
> Twice recently my mandrake 6.1 system locked up
> completely, responding to keyboard nor mouse nor telnet, to
> the extent that it had to be reset. The message log for the
> first of these gives an error for a kernel paging request
> followed by sundry details; the second crash was not
> logged. Any suggestions as to how to begin unravelling the
> problem?
>
> I would add that the x-server itself (running the Mandrake
> default KDE desktop) has been unstable - mainly the font
> server crashing but also a number of KiKbd errors
> (BadWindow). But that seemed to bring the x-server down but
> not the whole system. Suggestions about the cause
> of these problems would also be welcome.
I too am recieving many KiKbd errors from a fresh install of 6.1 and would
be curious as to the cause and cure.
Hoyt
