Maybe this is related, maybe not (K6-2/350, kernel 2.2.x and potato seem to be common factors in this thread):
I have an occasional X lockup. It was more prevalent when I was using icewm-gnome as my wm. I could get it to consistently happen after defining a menu entry for vmware (upon exit from vmware). X was grabbing all the cpu resources. The only way out was to telnet in from another box and reboot. I changed my wm to blackbox and it hasn't happened since, although I occasionally (rarely) lose my cursor after exiting vmware or navigator 4.61. ctrl-alt-backspace always works in this case to kill X. Otherwise navigator has been pretty stable for me, unlike some others. Bob On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:06:32AM -0000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > I am using Netscape glibc 4.61 right now, quite unstable (window closing > stuff). I have the lastests gnome using apt-get from cybertrails.com, as well > as enlightenment. I update/dist-upgrade almost daily. I don't use > gnome/kde/enlightenment, even though I have them installed. I use > WindowMaker. > > I don't really think it is a windowmanager/browser problem. I would rather a > think the X server, or hardware. Yet, the kernel is working fine (I can > ping), > but the software on top is not running: ftpd and telnetd don't work. > > This freezing up is not a daily occurence for me; I have been up for 2 weeks > before it froze (or I bumped the power cord :-p ) > > On 03-Aug-99 Raphael clancy wrote: > > hmm sounds familliar, I had a very similar system, which would lock up > > completly while using netscape (version 4.08-4.6). I found that upgrading > > gnome from 1.0 to 1.06 fixed the problem. There are instructions on the > > gnome > > website on how to add them to your sources list, then you can use apt to get > > the newest version. > > > >>>> Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/03 1:14 AM >>> > > 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 :) > > -- > > --------------------------- > Wim Kerkhoff > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.canadianhomes.net/wim > ICQ: 23284586 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
