Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 17:39:28 -0700 From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au> Subject: Re: Mystery freezes 2.1R Message-ID: <199605140039.RAA02245@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 09:31:09 %2B1000." <Pine.BSI.3.91.960514092348.23306A-100000@tulpi.interconnect.com.au>
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> > > My 2.1R system is suffering from frequent virtual terminal, console and X > > > freezes. (about every half hour) I dont think the whole system is freezing, > > That's not nice. :-( Is there some specific program you're running that > > causes the crash? > > I dont know - nothing obvious - it has happened once when I was not > running X, which up until that point had been a suspect. I have been > running pppd each time - but as I said, it still seems to be running. > This is why I was hoping something would turn up in the logs. I wish I could point to something, but nothing sticks out. > > > Have you tried telnetting into the machine and checked > > systat -pigs, ps ax, top, etc. for a program that's hogging the CPU? > > I only have one computer, so I cant try to telnet in to see if anything > is happening. Oh well. My box's keyboard occaisionally locks up, so I telnet in from my laptop and shut it down. > > >Does the same problem occur in other OSs (DOS, for instance)? > > No, I have been using DOS/windows a lot lately (because of this problem), > and it is fine. Ok, it's not specifically hardware then. > > > The system is a 486DX2-66 noname with AMI BIOS, Soundblaster-16 + Creative > > > 2XCDROM, 2 x IDE conner 420MB hard disks, 12MB Ram, 1MB Trident SVGA, mouse > > > systems mouse. It is running stock 2.1R everything, and has Linux emulation > > > compiled in. > > > > > > In which logs should I look, what should I look for, and is there some > > > sort of extended logging I should turn on to try and sort this out ? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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