Re: debian lenny sudden restart

2009-07-18 Thread Shimon Panfil
Quoting Amos Shapira : 1. Are you aware of ways to switch to a different virtual console and/or cause the X server to restart - both possible from the keyboard? 2. There are ways to "checkpoint" long running processes to disk so they won't get lost on process or system crash. --skipped-- Yes,

Re: debian lenny sudden restart

2009-07-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 11:15 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > 1. Are you aware of ways to switch to a different virtual console > and/or cause the X server to restart - both possible from the > keyboard? Those ways don't work for me when the keyboard and mouse both freeze. > 2. There are ways to "chec

Re: debian lenny sudden restart

2009-07-18 Thread Amos Shapira
1. Are you aware of ways to switch to a different virtual console and/or cause the X server to restart - both possible from the keyboard? 2. There are ways to "checkpoint" long running processes to disk so they won't get lost on process or system crash. I'm on the road at the moment so can't provi

Debian Lenny Xorg X-Server woes (was: Re: debian lenny sudden restart)

2009-07-18 Thread Omer Zak
Shimon: 1. You may be able to save the long calculation by running it from one of the consoles instead of the X-Server. 2. Check your keyboard configuration. Any Debian Lenny Xorg X-Window expert in Linux-IL: 1. Where to set options so that the Xorg.0.log will be more verbose? (according to man Xo

Re: debian lenny sudden restart

2009-07-18 Thread Shimon Panfil
Quoting Omer Zak : On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 18:21 +0300, Shimon Panfil wrote: Hi folks, today my main box running debian lenny made sudden restart. How can I investigate what was the reason? What log should I inspect? I use UPS so the reason might be more interesting that simple power failure.