On March 5, 2003 12:54 pm, Spundun Bhatt wrote: > I know what you mean :) But just for the sake of fairness I have had to > reboot my gentoo box because of hangs. It has happened 3-4 times > randomly in last 3 months that after sitting idle for sometime it > hangs... I see a frozen Xscreensaver and tapping the mouspad (its a > laptop) doesnt get it off....... ctrl+alt+f1 doesnt work > (ctrl+at+(+)/(-) has never worked for me somehow) and the only option I > got is reboot. > I know this may not be linux crash... may be Xfree crash but then again > when we say windows crash.. what component do we mean? > Still this is not similar to BSOD so for that... err....what about > kernel panic!!!!!
have you considered ssh'ing in to see what's going on? the tell-tale sign of a true hang for me is if the numlock key isn't responding. if it works, it's probably just an X crash -- o great spirit, who made all races, look kindly upon the whole human family and take away the arrogance and hatred which separates us from our brothers. - cherokee prayer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
