On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Here is a weird one.
>
> I have LM 7.1. Today I went to check my e-mail, and turned on
> the monitor. Unfortunatly, the screen was blank. No kdm. Very
> strange. So I hit alt-f2 and no virtual terminal. No virtual
> terminals when I hit alt-f1, or alt-f3-f6.
>
> I couldn't log in via ssh either. I didn't telnet to my sendmail
> to see if that was still responding. But the computer was turned
> on and the damn thing was completely dead, and I had to do a
> reboot with the reset switch. Grrrrrrrr. This is the first time
> that Linux has ever acted like Windows 98.
>
> Any ideas? I suppose that I may have been DoSed, but kind of
> doubt it, since I've never had problems before. Could this be
> indicitive of a hardware problem?? Just curious is all.
I have had this happen to me. Usually it was after a power blip (fairly common
out where I am). Not enough of a transient to shutdown the system, just enough
to screw up a few memory locations. I now have a UPS and have not had a problem
since I got it.
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
