On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:56, gabriel wrote:
> 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? 
Wow.... didnt think of that one!! will try next time..
>  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
The caps lock was not responding... didnt try numlockfor a very stupid
reason.


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