Re: Random lockups

2012-07-06 Thread francis picabia
The golden rule with random, that is, not reproducible by doing something, is you are looking at a hardware problem, not an OS problem. The way to diagnose the hardware is to replace with known good parts until the problem is resolved. Power supplies and motherboards are common culprits. Memory

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/07/12 04:11 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:46:56 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. Can you still

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:46:56 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >>> My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time >>> recently. >>> >>> There is nothing is the syslog...n

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/07/12 01:12 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system just locks changing what's on the screen to

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:10:24 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time > recently. > > There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system > just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. It locks > s

Re: re Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 03/07/12 01:38 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 3 July 2012 18:10, Frank McCormick mailto:debianl...@videotron.ca>> wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is n

re Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/07/12 01:38 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 3 July 2012 18:10, Frank McCormick mailto:debianl...@videotron.ca>> wrote: My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The syste

Re: Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 3 July 2012 18:10, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time > recently. > >There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system > just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. > It locks so tight t

Random lockups

2012-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time recently. There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. It locks so tight that only a hard reset gets it back. Alt-SysReq does not

Re: Random Lockups w/ caps lock, scroll lock

2003-10-14 Thread Matt McMinn
David Fokkema wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 08:44, Matt McMinn wrote: I've started to experience "random" lockups with my debian system. It seems to be similar to this problem in Suse: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Dec/0623.html I tried that barrier=none

Re: Random Lockups w/ caps lock, scroll lock

2003-10-14 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 08:44, Matt McMinn wrote: > I've started to experience "random" lockups with my debian system. It seems to be > similar to this problem in Suse: > > http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Dec/0623.html > > I tried that barrie

Random Lockups w/ caps lock, scroll lock

2003-10-14 Thread Matt McMinn
I've started to experience "random" lockups with my debian system. It seems to be similar to this problem in Suse: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Dec/0623.html I tried that barrier=none remedy, and on reboot, the drive didn't mount, with an "unknown

Re: Random lockups using woody/sid (cron related?)

2003-01-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:43:20AM -0500, Jason Ruiter wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been having a strange problem with a machine running a combination > of woody and sid (mostly woody with some sid packages). Every morning, > around 06:00, the machine locks. X locks, I can't get a console with >

Random lockups using woody/sid (cron related?)

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Ruiter
Greetings, I've been having a strange problem with a machine running a combination of woody and sid (mostly woody with some sid packages). Every morning, around 06:00, the machine locks. X locks, I can't get a console with control-alt-f1, I can't ssh in. I *can* ping the machine in question. S