On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:52:06AM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > 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.
This indicates possibly a hardware or configuration problem. dselect/apt can be fairly resource intensive -- if your box is overheating it might crash. The other possibility is too little ram/swap which may cause a VFS error with the kernel (have you checked the logs?). > 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. There's definitely something screwy going on here. Again, check your logs for errors. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
