Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Dienstag, 29. November 2005 15:57 schrieb Shibu Basheer:
> I've been using open suse for a couple of days now, and I feel there
> are some stability issues on my PC. The PC locks up occasionally when
> logging in or out of a KDE session. The mouse curser moves, but no
> access to keyboard, and I cannot switch to a terminal using alt-F
> switch.  

If you are in a X session currently, you need Ctrl additionally, so try 
ctrl-alt-f1 ;-)

> I also found the system locked up after I let it running 
> overnight, only see a static picture of the screensaver on, with no
> response.  

If you have a second machine: can you ping the "frozen" machine? Can you 
ssh into it (given ssh is enabled and not blocked by firewall)?

> I wish to believe this a hardware problem, but XP runs smooth on this
> machine. Is there any way to lookup cause of crash in any log files
> after a reboot?

You already heard about several files in /var/log/ ;-)

If you have some seconds between logging in and the freeze, you can also 
press ctrl-alt-f10 directly after login and check error messages on the 
console - even if they can't be written to /var/log/messages for any 
reason.


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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