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Hello all, |
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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 be |
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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 |
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any warning messages. I've also looked in the Xorg and sshd logs to see if |
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there is anything in there to indicate what might be happening, but I don't |
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see 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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Shawn Singh |
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