Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. It turned out to be a dying motherboard. Yours might be something else, but it is likely to be a hardware problem.
On 11/8/05, Shawn Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a "zombie machine" > two times. Here are the symptoms: > > 1. Can't get the mouse to move on the screen > 2. See the time is several hours back (the time that is displayed in the > panel) > 3. Can't ssh into the box to find out what might be causing the system to > be unresponsive. > 4. Can't ping the box. > > When looking in /var/log in the critical and kernel sections I don't see any > warning messages. I've also looked in the Xorg and sshd logs to see if there > is anything in there to indicate what might be happening, but I don't see > anything. > > I've got a Pentium 4 (1300 Mhz), 768Mb RAM. I've had Gentoo on this box for > several months now (at least 9) and have not seen this problem before (at > least that I can remember). > > What log files might there be that might give some indications as to the > problem that might be causing the system to become unresponsive? > > Thank you, > > Shawn Singh > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
