I had two lockups with kernel 2.4.12; I've just had another with 2.4.14. I was online at all these times, using Acroread on the last occasion. No key or mouse would work. The hard disk kept running.
I think this may be a VM issue, because it doesn't seem to happen with the Alan Cox patches. Anthony. -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 140 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]