> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:47:46AM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard > > system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times, > > it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer.
> > It doesn't seem to matter what's running becuase I've tried turning almost > > all of the daemons (except cron and a couple of others) off, and it still > > hung. It's happening more and more frequently, too. It used to be able to go > > for a week or two. Now, it barely makes it more than 4 hours or so. The following may not apply to you but may be of interest generally. You didn't say if you're always running X. I don't think anything has ever hung my machine other than Netscape and/or X. HOWEVER, for me it's only the XServer that is hung. I have a lan at home so I can go to my wife's Win95 PC (which usually needs rebooting because it's been sitting there idle for a few days and hangs by itself) and telnet to my Linux box and kill Netscape, or sometimes kill X. But the point is that I can login and the OS itself isn't hung. Can you make it hang outside of X? If not, can you plug in a dumb terminal or telnet in to see if it's _really_ hung? ...RickM...
