On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 21:29:22 Eric G. Miller wrote: > 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.
Sorry about that - I realized I forgot to put all that information in after I sent it off. I'm running Woody on a 2.4.7 kernel. The box is built around a P III chip, with an assortment of hard drives, cd drives, SCSI, USB, and so forth. Relevant version numbers: xserver-common 4.0.3-4 xserver-xfree86 4.0.3-4 libesd0 0.2.22-6 libc6 2.2.3-5 xmms 1.2.5-1.1 Not sure if you'll need anything else. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace would ordinarily work just fine, but the keyboard is also locked out - nothing works. Thanks again, Steve
