On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:58:41PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote: > Hello all, > I've just experienced my first ever system crashes. They were all within > the last several days (after an upgrade that included an upgrade of XMMS), > and they all happened shortly after opening XMMS. There were only three > total, and it's not consistent, but XMMS & X are the only consistent > factors. I saw that someone else was having some problems with system > hangs, and so I regenerated my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on the off chance that > that was it, but it continued. Anybody else having any problems with this? > I took a look at the bug reports, and saw some related problems, but > nothing that seemed to be this bad - I'm getting total lockups (no keyboard > response, even). > I'm not sure how to troubleshoot - I've looked through the various logfiles > in /var/, and it doesn't look like there are any obvious error messages, > although I'm kind of a newbie at this. Any responses or suggestions would > be appreciated. I've only been running Debian for about six months, but > thisa is the first hang, and (although it was in a sick way nice to know > that nothing is perfect) fairly upsetting. In the meantime, I'm not using > XMMS, to see if my box will hang whithout it. > Thanks in advance, > Steve
Since you say there is nothing in the logs, is doesn't sound like the kernel crashed. Perhaps just X got frozen? Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is usually set to kill X. Helps if you give info about the type of system and kernel version. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
