On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 08:21, Dan wrote:
Hi all. I have a strange problem with my SuSE 9.0 box. The problem happens now and then: When I log on as a user at the KDE login prompt, the login dialog box disappears and the system COMPLETELY freezes. All the services STOP and I can't get in contact with it, so the only thing I can do is power it off manually and reboot the machine which I don't like doing!
This doesn't happen everytime, but I have noticed that it happens after I have done the following: 1) the machine boots into runlevel 3 2) I issue a "telinit 5", log in to the GUI
Instead of issuing init5 use startx instead.
3) After some time I issue a "telinit 3" command and the machine goes to runlevel 3 (I switch the GUI off to free up RAM usage) 4) Wanting to use the GUI again I issue a "telinit 5", the login dialog box appears, I log in as a user and the machine completely freezes - everything stops.
I use the computer as a webserver. When I work on the server I usually issue commands via WEBMIN.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix the problem?
Regards, Dan -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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