Well, I had upgraded my kernel, futzed with my BIOS settings, and tried anything else I thought might help, but I am still getting system lockups. >From what the logs indicate, the crash happened at around 5 a.m. this morning. I checked on it at 9:30. The screen blanker had been on, so I couldn't see the desktop. The capslock key toggled the little capslock light, so I tried the SysRq button sequences. They didn't seem to do anything, and the capslock, scroll lock, etc ceased to operate their indicators.
Next, I went to the logs for clues. I haven't found anything conclusive yet, but I found this glitch in my syslog: Aug 12 05:13:00 cmayes /USR/SBIN/CRON[31736]: (root) CMD (/bin/chown root:dip /etc/ppp) Aug 12 05:14:00 cmayes /USR/SBIN/CRON[32029]: (root) CMD (/bin/chmod 775 /dev/ttyS1) Aug 12 05:14:00 cmayes /USR/SBIN/CRON[32030]: (root) CMD (/bin/chown root:dip /etc/ppp) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@^@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ (root) CMD (/bin/chmod 775 /dev/ttyS1) Aug 12 05:15:00 cmayes /USR/SBIN/CRON[32046]: (root) CMD (/bin/chown root:dip /etc/ppp) Aug 12 09:46:52 cmayes syslogd 1.3-3#32: restart. Does anyone know what the control-ampersand ASCII code might mean? The above interpretation is from Jed, BTW. Also, in case you're curious, the above actions are in place in cron to counter the irritating tendency for something in the ppp package to set permissions on /etc/ppp to exclude the dip group. The permissions also get messed up on my serial devices. I don't think this causes any problems, but i thought that you all might be curious ;-) Anyway, my next plan of action is to cut to the console without screen blanking so that I can see any dying words my box might have for me. Any other suggestions? TIA, -Chris ------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE web-based e-mail and newsgroup access at: http://MailAndNews.com and http://MailAndNews.co.uk Create a new mailbox, or access your existing IMAP4 or POP3 mailbox from anywhere with just a web browser. ------------------------------------------------------------
