On Friday 22 November 2002 17:20, Marshall Heartley wrote:
.......................................... I now know that the problems seem to be with certain programs. To point the finger to the 2 culprits in my case, xscreensaver and crack-attack. I know that these programs crash from time to time. But when they do, it locks my machine down HARD!!! I have to push the power button because I have no control over the machine when it locks down. I cannot even ssh into it!
One "not so very elegant" way around that is having root running a script in the background. Something like: #!/bin/bash # Just wait awhile... sleep 600 top -b -n 1 > /root/topfile ps -ef > /root/psfile # Some other monitor commands... # Perhaps it's enough with runlevel 3... # Or perhaps just killall -9 X /sbin/init 1 #end 10 min. after you start this script, you will be dumped down to runlevel 1, and hopefully get control over your computer. After you've started the script you try to make xscreensaver or crack-attack lock-up your computer. (Try for about 8 min. and then stop the script, and start it again).
I think that it has something to do with the driver that Nvidia uses. I'm not sure though. Oh well. One more thing, Can I submit a report to SuSE or do I need to (GULP) send it to Nvidia? I would like to have this issue resolved and I'm running low on ideas and unfortunately patience too.
Afterwards you might have some more info on your troubles... regards Jónas H Pálsson