"Carlos E. R."
It is 8.1? The kernel on 8.1 is faulty, if you have at least one reiserfs partition. You should enable "barrier=none" option in fstab for those partitions, or use the patched kernel they provided.
The symptom was a complete absolute sudden crash: every ting stopped, nothing in the logs, no network access, keyboard locked, num lock and cap lock led blinking --> ie, kernel crash signaling.
Often the HD led would remain on.
One more possibility apart from the other things you were told already :-)
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos and you other gurus: I was aware of the 8.1 kernel problem, and the first thing I did when I installed 8.1 was upgrade my kernel. However I did not know of "barrier=none" option in fstab. I now see it is is hinted at in SuSE's support knowledge base: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_update_kernel.html but not really explained how to do it. I looked at "man fstab" and read Carlos'December post: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Dec/0658.html I still have no clue. Could someone please show how my fstab table would look if I put in a "barrier=none" option in it. Thanks Gar __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455