[PLUG] Diagnosing Hard Lock-Up
Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm at attbi.com
Sat Aug 10 20:03:42 UTC 2002
>From what I seen there is a file called .xsession-errors in the users
home directory that has error and other messages in it. KDE seems to
spit out alot of stuff into this file on my system. I know too that X
also creates a logfile in /var/log/Xfree86.0.log.
Since it sounds like your system is crashing outright, have you run
Memtest-86 to see if you have any bad memory? I had some spectacular
crashes because of a bad DIMM in my system. I have LILO setup so I can
choose to run Memtest-86 rather then booting Linux so I can test my
system's memory. Since the bad DIMM was replaced I haven't had anymore
crashes.
I've also had X crash and/or hang outright but Linux keep running and
the box was still reachable from the network so I could login and and
kill X and then get back to running X from the consol again.
Tony
On Saturday 10 August 2002 12:41 pm, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> Okay, it's been twice in two months or so that I've come to find a
> particulat screensaver halted. System ignores keyboard altogether,
> and has dropped off the LAN (Destination Host Unreachable).
>
> Only thing I didn't try was serial port login, but this workstation
> isn't set up for that--I think. Anyway, was forced to do a hard
> reset--thank you ext3. First thing I did was rpm -e xscreensaver.
>
> Q: Cannot find any damning evidence in /var/log/messages nor
> /v/l/secure. Any ideas where I might find a clue. I thought X kept a
> log in the user's home, but it's not to be found.
>
> I really suspect the screensaver, but on the otherhand, how could a
> screensaver go so wrong as to bring down networking (lock up the
> kernel?)
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Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm at attbi.com
>>>>This machine was last rebooted: 13 days 1 hours ago<<
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