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Greetings list. I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year |
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now. I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently. |
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Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC (the server is also |
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a router, my home PC connects through it). I have a kvm switch so I had WoW |
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running on my main PC while I was working on the screen for the server. I |
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had just typed emerge -av net-ping then typed yes, it got 3 lines into the |
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emerge and the server froze. Internet access stopped working on the home PC |
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(WoW disconnected), screen froze on tty1, could not change virtual screens, |
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keyboard would not type and none of the lock keys (caps, scroll, etc.) would |
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not work. Ctrl+alt+del wouldn't work, and I couldn't even ssh into |
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it. I wasn't do anything particularly out of the ordinary with the |
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server, either: I had done an esync, like I do |
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everyday, and updated world. I was emerging net-ping because I thought it |
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was a cyclic pinger, although I ended up finding out pinger was the app I |
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wanted. |
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So that's the background information. Here's the question: Is there anyway |
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to find out why it froze? |
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- Mark Shields |