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From: Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 04:12:28
Message-Id: 7225537e0511082005x1a0493a8q5f09f6ac096ec56e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up by Burak Serdar
1 I hope it's not the mobo. Did you see any logs that indicated hw failure or
2 anything like that?
3
4 On 11/8/05, Burak Serdar <bserdar@××××.org> wrote:
5 >
6 > Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. It turned out to be a dying
7 > motherboard. Yours might be something else, but it is likely to be a
8 > hardware problem.
9 >
10 > On 11/8/05, Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@×××××.com> wrote:
11 > > Hello all,
12 > >
13 > > Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a "zombie machine"
14 > > two times. Here are the symptoms:
15 > >
16 > > 1. Can't get the mouse to move on the screen
17 > > 2. See the time is several hours back (the time that is displayed in the
18 > > panel)
19 > > 3. Can't ssh into the box to find out what might be causing the system
20 > to
21 > > be unresponsive.
22 > > 4. Can't ping the box.
23 > >
24 > > When looking in /var/log in the critical and kernel sections I don't see
25 > any
26 > > warning messages. I've also looked in the Xorg and sshd logs to see if
27 > there
28 > > is anything in there to indicate what might be happening, but I don't
29 > see
30 > > anything.
31 > >
32 > > I've got a Pentium 4 (1300 Mhz), 768Mb RAM. I've had Gentoo on this box
33 > for
34 > > several months now (at least 9) and have not seen this problem before
35 > (at
36 > > least that I can remember).
37 > >
38 > > What log files might there be that might give some indications as to the
39 > > problem that might be causing the system to become unresponsive?
40 > >
41 > > Thank you,
42 > >
43 > > Shawn Singh
44 > >
45 >
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53 Shawn Singh