I'm having a very odd problem after installing ML8.0. I first installed
it via FTP (Cooker), but yesterday installed from the CD-set from
CheapBytes (T-something), and both give me the same results. :(
At different points, the system will just freeze up completely. The mouse
and keyboard won't respond, and the screen is frozen as well. Lastly, the
HDD light on my case stays on, but I can hear no disk access. This will
happen on bootup, at various times during INIT; while X/KDE is loading;
after using X for a couple minutes; after an hour or so in X; and
even after leaving the computer on in console mode for 23 hours, then
booting X and having it freeze in about one minute.
I can't find any correlation between what the system is doing and why it
is freezing. I've tried turning off crond and anacrond, along with many
other services, but it still does it. It also does it in both the XFree
3.x.x as well as the new 4.0.x.
Hardware:
Shuttle HOT-603 mobo (AMD-640 chipset)
K6-233
128MB SDRAM
Matrox Millenium II vid (PCI 4MB VRAM)
Maxtor 25GB UDMA HDD (mobo 1st IDE controller master)
Pinelabs ATAPI 52X UDMA CDROM (mobo 2nd IDE controller master)
Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold (ISA PnP)
Linksys 10/100 PCI NIC (Tulip-based)
Logitech keyboard and optical wheel PS/2 mouse
External Hayes 56K modem (run from mobo's COM2)
Canon BJC-7004 Printer (run from mobo's LPT1/EPP1.9)
Oh, I have used RedHat Linux in the past on thie machine with no problems,
as well as Windows95 OSR2 and Windows NT4.
If you need more info, please just ask. I really want to solve this, as
this computer is destined to be our church's file/printer/web server, so
it needs to... not randomly crash. ;)
Thanks in advance!
Solomon
