This machine had ssh installed. When I say it locked up, it locked up.
Nothing worked. Ssh wouldn't work. Http wouldn't work. It just
stopped responding to anything.
On 01/07/2013 07:05 PM, Stephen wrote:
This is why I always install ssh even on a desktop I intend to use in
the same room.
On Jan 7, 2013 5:57 PM, "Brian Cluff" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Just curious; are you sure that it was actually locking up? It
might be that something was making the X server become
unresponsive, but the machine, as a whole, was just fine.
Recently my machine was "locking up" a lot, but it would only do
it when I was listing to music. It turned out that there is a bug
in Amarok that if it tries to play an MP3 file that has 0 size.
that it would crash, and it turns out that if it crashes after the
screen has blanked that things go bonkers and nothing responds.
...but it turns out that I could still ssh into my machine from
another computer and investigate what was broken. Turns out that
when I went to recover a bunch of MP3 files from some CDs that
were about 20 years old that when it couldn't recover the file it
just wrote out the name of the file with nothing in it.
In any case, I've found that Linux almost never locks up, it just
becomes unresponsive from the desktop, to the point that
CTRL+ALT+F1 won't ever do anything for you, but ssh/telnet will
almost always get you into the machine and let you identify and
kill what is causing the problem.
The only reason I mention this is that is you find that Slackware
won't do it for you in the long run, there may be hope in getting
one of your previous distros to work for you.
Brian Cluff
On 01/07/2013 02:42 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
Some of you might remember of the last few months me posting
about my
system locking up running linux. This last Saturday marked my
system
running slackware for a whole week without locking up once.
Before this
I had tried Kubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora and Centos.
I'm guessing Slackware has something the other distros I've
tried don't
or the others have something Slackware doesn't. There has to
be some
difference. Any ideas what it is?
Thanks
Derek
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