On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 15:08:18 -0400, tyler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck > looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the > keyboard and mouse stopped responding completely. The screen appeared > fixed, viewing an xpdf window. I couldn't even switch to a terminal to > poke around there, as C-A-F1 etc. didn't respond. > > I'm running Lenny with fluxbox, and had just done an aptitude update. I > don't recall anything heavy, about 40 packages including iceweasel. I > had also just plugged in to the wall socket after running on battery > power for several hours. > > I have checked /var/log/Xorg0.log.old, and the only EE messages are: > > (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) > (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap > > These show up periodically in this file, but not in /var/log/Xorg0.log, > which I take it is the log for my current session. I use a USB keyboard > and USB mouse sometimes, so maybe the error is when the keyboard is > first plugged in or removed? > > I don't know where to begin trouble shooting - what's the first step? Is > there something I can do to make it easier to find the problem if it > happens again? I had similar problems in the past that I think were > associated with doing some image manipulation in Inkscape or Gimp that > were taking all of my RAM and CPU, but I wasn't doing anything like that > today.
Depending on just how complete your freeze is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key just *may* be of use when it happens again. It might allow you to recover some useful logging if nothing else. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
