From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 05:20:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3CCE16A4B3 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:20:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from anon.securenym.net (anon.securenym.net [209.113.101.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA4743FBF for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:20:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dincht@securenym.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by anon.securenym.net (8.11.7/8.11.7) id h9RDGlA28454 for questions@freebsd.org.filtered; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 07:16:47 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200310271316.h9RDGlA28454@anon.securenym.net> X-Securenym: dincht From: "C. Ulrich" To: jason@dictos.com In-Reply-To: <200310242225.41136.jason@dictos.com> References: <200310242225.41136.jason@dictos.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: The Peter Jennings Fan Club Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:13:32 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash in gui X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:20:36 -0000 On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 05:25, jason dictos wrote: > Hi All, > > Today my machine has locked up twice within the span of an hour, and both > times it locked up when I clicked on a link in Gaim. The lock is hard, and > there's no message in /var/log/messages that I can see, so my question is how > can I debug such a problem? Where even the caps lock button no longer > reponds? > > I'm using 5.1 + all security patches It sounds like X is freezing and taking your console with it. You should be able to log in remotely to shut down your system. Perhaps try different versions of Gaim, X, and whatever your web browser is to see if that makes the problem go away. You might also consider submitting a bug report to the XFree86 project, but if you do be aware that they probably have bug reporting procedures just like any other open source project. Charles Ulrich -- http://bityard.net