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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