On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:20:00 +0300, manolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yesterday I was working on my pc. I had many programs opened. The mandrake 9.1
> 
> installation had an uptime of about 5 days. Suddenly the mouse and keyboard 
> stack and the 2 lights on the keyboard were blinking!
> I couldn't do anything except hardware reset.
> Is this my first kernel panic?
> What really happened?
> Where in the log files can I find what made my linux crash?
> 
> Any help?
> I browsed the syslog file but I didn't found anything about the freeze.
> 
> thank you in advance

The blinking keyboard lights are the sign of a kernel panic. AFAIK, there isn't
much you can do about this. Try browsing the files in /var/log and check your
home directory for coredump files (although I don't think kernel panics would
create these). These typically start with the word "core".


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