On 03-Aug-99 Patrik Magnusson wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>       [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Hachinger) writes:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Wim Kerkhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 2:21 AM
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> 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 I 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?
> 
> With the exception of being perfectly able to telnet/ftp I've had
> the exact same problem myself. It turned out that it was 'just' my
> Xserver crashing. So I'm going to ask a potentially stupid question 
> just to make sure: You can telnet/ftp into it under normal conditions
> right?
> 
> [snip] 
>> Sounds like a processor overheat problem or so, I think. But it's quite
>> strange that you could ping it. Isn't the processor needed for beeing
>> pinged??
> 
> Yes, I thought so too.


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