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Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. It turned out to be a dying |
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motherboard. Yours might be something else, but it is likely to be a |
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hardware problem. |
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On 11/8/05, Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> |
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> Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a "zombie machine" |
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> two times. Here are the symptoms: |
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> 1. Can't get the mouse to move on the screen |
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> 2. See the time is several hours back (the time that is displayed in the |
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> panel) |
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> 3. Can't ssh into the box to find out what might be causing the system to |
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> be unresponsive. |
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> 4. Can't ping the box. |
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> When looking in /var/log in the critical and kernel sections I don't see any |
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> warning messages. I've also looked in the Xorg and sshd logs to see if there |
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> is anything in there to indicate what might be happening, but I don't see |
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> anything. |
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> I've got a Pentium 4 (1300 Mhz), 768Mb RAM. I've had Gentoo on this box for |
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> several months now (at least 9) and have not seen this problem before (at |
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> least that I can remember). |
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> What log files might there be that might give some indications as to the |
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> problem that might be causing the system to become unresponsive? |
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> Thank you, |
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> |
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> Shawn Singh |
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