Quoting John Reinke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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.
Now that's odd. If I've had the X server lock up and I can manage to login on the network, killing processes is the least of my problems. It's the logging in that's iffy. > 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. You might want to investigate resource limits. They've been discussed on this list. > 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. Maybe you have a hardware problem. On rare occasions, my network card can crash a machine. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
