From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 12:57:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06474 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:57:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06469 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:57:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26306; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:57:41 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10332; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:57:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199901192057.MAA10332@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: General Lockup Troubleshooting. In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5DD4@site2s1> from Christopher Michaels - SSG at "Jan 19, 99 03:49:19 pm" To: ChrisMic@sbservices.com (Christopher Michaels - SSG) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:57:40 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Christopher Michaels - SSG: > Hello, > I have a machine with 2.2.8 installed and it has appeared to lock up twice > on me since I upgraded. The machine was running ~2 weeks each time it > locked up and both times I had to reset the machine. I realize that this > isn't enough information in and of itself to get any help but is there > anything I can use to trouble shoot this problem? Any logs or utilities or > ports I can use? > I know how to troubleshoot in general but I don't know the resources > available to me in FreeBSD yet. > Were you possibly running xscreensaver when the lock-up happened? Late last month I happened onto an infrequent bug where one of xscreensaver's programs completely locks up my machine. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message