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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