[PLUG] lockup logs

Bruce Kingsland brucek at kingkon.com
Mon Apr 15 23:07:01 UTC 2002


Rich Shepard's Log: StarDate 0415.1531:
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way to discover what leads up to a lockup?
> 
>   Ha! Fat chance! :-)
>  
> > One of my home systems hangs every couple weeks. I dunno why. I thot
> > it was the xlock, but yesterday it hung anyway. It was in 'video idle'
> > mode, and I couldn't wake it up. This is the usual failure mode.
> > However, this time I ping'd the sleeping system, and it answered. But
> > it wouldn't let me ssh in (which I later found it is *normal?*), or
> > bring up the video.
> 
>   I had a workstation that would die overnight, just lock up tight as a
> drum. For a while it happened every 2-3 nights, then every week or three. I
> finally replaced the machine and the problem went away. Paul Nelson at
> Riverdale School had the same problem with a machine. He, too, "fixed" the
> problem by replacing the machine.
> 
>   It is just a "computer moment" that no one seems to be able to solve.

Well, this "moment" is on a Dual P200, and I'm not ready to replace it
just yet.
-- 
Bruce Kingsland
Kingsland Konsulting
brucek at kingkon.com
503-936-1655
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