On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:37 -0600, . wrote:
> Has anyone else had a problem with their machine dropping back from
> gui to console after a period of uptime? I have a computer that I run
> at init level 5 and use as my main home PC. However, I also have it
> running several things out of cron, and performing server type functions
> like samba and cups. It's an AMD XP 1400 with 512MB of RAM, so I don't
> feel I'm asking too much from the system.
>
> Periodically, I'll come up to the keyboard and monitor and it will
> be at a console login prompt. After a series of stopping and starting
> xfs and dm, and running "init 3" followed by "init 5" seems to get me
> back to a gui login. Then I can log back in and continue on. The
> problem is, I have things running out of xterm windows and I keep
> loosing my work when this happens.
>
> I'm going to make sure I'm patched to the latest rpms, but I thought
> I'd post to this group to see if anyone else had seen this and/or knew
> what the problem was.
Sounds like a hardware prob to me. Install memtest and reboot to the
memtest boot option and run it over night.
wobo
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