Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
>
> I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no
> apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard
> control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del
> don't
> do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either.
>
> What did find kind of strange, though, it was still connected to my ISP via
> modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network. I could ping it from a
> win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it. I couldn't telnet/ftp into it
> though, only ping and masq.
>
> I had an uptime of 12 days when this happened. It has done it before. Where
> would the problem lie? Hardware? Kernel?
>
> I'm running:
> -Kernel 2.2.10
> -Potato
> -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard
I've had similar problems that weren't limited to potato or
2.2.10, they happened when I ran slink and a 2.0.36 kernel too. I
also had a similar setup as you: amd-k62 250, kernel 2.2.10, and
an epox mobo.
My system would lock up hard, I couldn't even ping the net from
my windows box. I can't count how many times I gave the old three
finger salute to my system.
I thought it was netscape that gave me all the problems, and it
did seem to be a common denominator. I tried different
windowmanagers too with the same results. Last week I through in
the towel and dropped my 333 MHz celeron into my box and I've had
almost no problems (today it crapped out for some reason). I'm
running a libc5 version of netscape and I'm using Enlightenment
and gnome for X.
So, I guess I'm trying to say is that you're not alone :)
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