The kernel continues to remain active as evidnt by it continuing to pass internet traffic to my windows box. But if I try to ssh in to it from that Windows I get the same series of events, prompt for username, prompt for password, hang. SAMBA connections also hang up and stop responding.
I wonder if it could be a problm with the password verification. Although that wouldn't explain the same series of events when trying to connect to Webmin because it has it's own password file that I don't believe relies on the system but I could be wrong. When sitting at a text login at the actuall box for example I'll enter the username and password and it'll stop moving. So I'll hit ALT+F3 to get a different terminal and I get a black screen, no prompts. So I hit ALT+F7 to get to my X windows and still get the black screen. I'll boot it in to single user mode and see what happens. But it could be a day or two before it hangs. It can work fine for a few days before it hangs up like this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] not sure what to call it > begin Patrick Stockton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Actually this a new install. It is about 3 weeks old and has done it since > > I installed it. The problem is that it's almost random. My girlfriend and > > I use it as an internet terminal and one of us will log out and the other > > will try to log in and it'll hang. > > just to be clear - the kernel doesn't hang. the keyboard and mouse > become unresponsive, right? you can ssh in just fine even after the > problem happens? > > > But speaking of new RPM's I did add Sun Java because she likes to play Yahoo > > card games. I'm wondering if that could be the problem. > > never liked java anyhow. ;) it's unbelievably slow and brings my > system performance down even worse than GNOME/KDE does. > > > Scanning both dmesg and messages hasn't revealed a prime suspect which is > > why I turned to the list. I guess I'm just too used to things working :) > > > I've dissabled USB and will watch to see what happens. > > barring that, boot into single user mode. if the problem doesn't exist > in single user mode, then it's most likely easy to fix -- one of your > services is screwing up the system. > > if the problem does exist in single user mode, i'd compile a custom made > kernel. go back to an early 2.4 or something. maybe even 2.2. > > pete *snip* _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
