as soon as you boot and login, can you change to a text consol and kill bind and inn and dns? or are they running? what may be happening is your computer is trying to do a dns lookup, and not finding a dns server. have you changed any of the settings for dns? On Friday 14 September 2001 14:39, you wrote: > I'm typing this very quickly because every time I've logged in to write > this my computer has frozen before I could finish. I have 1600 backed > up emails and haven't been able to write anything else to this list for > help on other issues. The problem is that when logged in to my 7.2 box, > the computer freezes after a varying amount of time. I haven't been > able to isolate it because it happens so often I almost don't use the > computer anymore. I believe it has all been happening either when it is > idle or at most when the mouse is in use, I don't remember it occurring > when the keyboard was typing. I always first notice it because the > mouse won't respond, then I realize the keyboard won't either, and > nothing will work except for turning off the power on the box. This has > never happened in the first two months of using Linux but it has > happened with paralyzing frequency for the last week or so. > > If it is relevant, I'm not dipping into swap at all, I've got 256MB RAM > and not even half is usually used for active processes. I've got > kpppstatistics, processmanager, 2 instances of Mozilla (1 browser 1 > mail), everybuddy and an eterm open. What's going on? > > - Isaac > > PS: Peace, respect, and empathy to all those affected by this tragedy, > both in America and abroad. My heart goes out to all of you and to > those yet to be affected by whatever response my government ends up > taking. I'm so sorry, this all seems so unreal... ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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