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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:19:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "R. A. Nethercott" <rnet@tchnet.tchnet.com>
To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
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Subject: Re: System Lock! 
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:

> 
> >I have a question for you BSD gurus!  My system is continuously locking 
> >up on Sunday afternoon and it does not give me any information to attempt 
> >to fix it.  Now, it is crashing more often, and I still do not know where 
> [...]
> 
> Are you running X?  If so, leave your system at the virtual text
> screen 0 when you're done with it, and you may see what you're looking
> for right on your monitor, the next time it hangs.  The kernel
> debugger won't automatically switch you out of X and back to a text
> vty, because it doesn't know how.

For everyones information, I am not running X.  We are just a small ISP 
running pppd dial-up connections.

I hope that helps a little more.

Thanks again,

Roy

R A Nethercott
System Administrator
Technet, Inc
rnet@tchnet.com