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From: Mark Shields <laebshade@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:29:17
Message-Id: 642958cc0603240656m6fbbfde7j4a6b403949416993@mail.gmail.com
1 Greetings list. I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year
2 now. I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently.
3 Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC (the server is also
4 a router, my home PC connects through it). I have a kvm switch so I had WoW
5 running on my main PC while I was working on the screen for the server. I
6 had just typed emerge -av net-ping then typed yes, it got 3 lines into the
7 emerge and the server froze. Internet access stopped working on the home PC
8 (WoW disconnected), screen froze on tty1, could not change virtual screens,
9 keyboard would not type and none of the lock keys (caps, scroll, etc.) would
10 not work. Ctrl+alt+del wouldn't work, and I couldn't even ssh into
11 it. I wasn't do anything particularly out of the ordinary with the
12 server, either: I had done an esync, like I do
13 everyday, and updated world. I was emerging net-ping because I thought it
14 was a cyclic pinger, although I ended up finding out pinger was the app I
15 wanted.
16
17 So that's the background information. Here's the question: Is there anyway
18 to find out why it froze?
19 --
20 - Mark Shields

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up Rafael Bugajewski <rb@××××××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>