I've had some problems with random lockups also. Won't
even respond to a ping.
Mine has never happened during the bootup process, just
while I'm in KDE. That said, it's been up several days
now.
> 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
>
>
