Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot. It commonly seems to coincide with Netscape crashing, but it almost always takes the whole system with it. I can't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or change to another console. Occasionally I can telnet into the box and try to kill X, but it never works. I always end up having to hit the reset button, which doesn't make me happy. Twice, it has crashed while running dselect from a console.
I need to use a "real" web browser, which seems to mainly be Netscape. I shouldn't be forced not to use Netscape, just so my box doesn't crash - this is Linux after all. I've tried different window managers (Enlightenment, Afterstep, Windowmaker...), but that doesn't help. I've considered compiling the magic key combination into the kernel, but it's the crashing or rebooting that I'd like to avoid in the first place. Other than not using Netscape, or disabling java or javascript (that helps, but not totally), what can/should I do to keep from crashing so often? Right now, it seems to crash about every other day. Additionally, I had something else weird happen today. I couldn't log into my box from another machine, xdm, or a console, but it was still running IPMasq services, etc. I finally had to reset it, since I couldn't get into it at all. It would never complete the validating process. The kernel logs showed the output like I see sometimes when it crashes and I'm at the console - several lines of addresses and numbers. Any suggestions to prevent this from happening again would also be helpful. Thanks, John
