On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: > Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, > with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 > nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable > problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights > are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor > is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either.
that's a kernel panic. If you had access to a console, it would be saying "AIIEE!!! killed interrupt handler at " and a whole bunch of illegible stuff. > Now, since I'm > the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to > another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, "press Y in 5 > seconds". So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window > because system says "can't fix file system". No graphics or X. if you have ext3 or one of the other journalling filesystems, you do not need to say Y here. > I wonder what > I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. > Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is > well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the > same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. > Computer reboots, sez to hit "Y" again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. > Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. > > Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, > not mine. :) well, something is causing the kernel to panic, and that's usually a sign of flaky hardware. The first time you boot, are you a) rebooting from Windows or b) cold-booting from power-off? If so, flaky hardware goes way high on the list of possibilities. less /var/log/messages and look for the stuff that you see when it reboots, then scroll up from there and you'll see if there was anything troublesome logged. Usually bad hardware just pulls the rug out before Linux can write anything to the log, but sometimes you get lucky and there'll be warning messages there. > > TIA -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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