Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] System Locks up
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Luis A. Costabile wrote:
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
All,
I have had my system lock up twice. Both times it stopped responding to any kind of user input. At the same time, hard drive began to grind with a repeated pattern. I assumed that the system was truly locked because the numlock and the caps lock were not toggling the LEDs. The last time this happened I was scrolling down through a man page in xemacs. I had gotten a head to the system. i.e., clicked faster than it scrolled.
Steve, I posted a question about something like this a little while ago, actually about a week ago. It happened again this morning and as soon as I heard my hard drive going crazy I started up top and noticed "man" was at the top of the list , but I couldn't get enough cycles to kill the process, so I had to reset the machine. Very coincidental you were running "man" and I had "man" pinned up there.
Anyone??? Hubert, you mentioned a mailing list about kernel development, is it an open list? What's the list called and how to subscribe?
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Luis, I was actually reading a man page using xemacs. Im not sure what this does in the background. The proceses may be the same, or similar to the regular man function. I am thinking that there could have been a problem with my intellimouse and video settings. I know this sound really far fethced. I believe that this strange hypothesis is justified because I set my colors to 24 bpp and my mouse (and display) went crazy. I now have my color deapth set to 16 bpp. I have not had anothe lock up yet. We will see. Steve -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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