Re: Frequent system crashes

From: Moe Trin (ibuprofin_at_painkiller.example.tld)
Date: 01/09/05

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    In article <nP2dnauYib-sGELcRVn-hA@rogers.com>, George wrote:

    > I'm using Mandrake 10.1 official and I seem to get frequent system
    >crashes. Basically, my whole computer locks up occasionally.

    Rather unusual. Some things to ponder.

    1. Do you have another computer on the LAN - is this computer responding
    over the network (ping, telnet, anything)?

    2. Does pressing the left Ctrl, left Alt and one of the Function keys
    (try F2 or F3) bring you to a text login screen? If so, can you log in
    as root and see what is going on? NOTE: While the system is running, look
    in /etc/inittab and see how many "*getty" lines there are - you would need
    to press the Alt and Fn key where n is one number greater than the number
    of gettys running in order to return to X.)

    3. If 2. fails, does pressing the left Ctrl, left Alt and the Backspace
    key restart X?

    4. If you _don't_ run X (try a text based login), do you have problems?

    5. Could you be having hardware problems? Temperature mainly. Could it
    be power problems?

    6. Get a bootable CD distribution like Knoppix, or even a rescue floppy
    system like Toms RootNBoot (tomsrtbt at any sunsite mirror in the
    ./system/recovery/ directory) and try running that. Does the system still
    lock up?

    7. Check the consistency of your software. As root, run the following
    command "rpm -Va > files.2.check" look at the 'rpm' man page under
    the VERIFICATION section - you are looking for binaries that fail size
    or MD5 checks,

    8. Does pressing the 'NumLock' 'Scroll Lock' or 'Caps Lock' key cause the
    lights on the keyboard to toggle?

    >What's interesting to note is that I used to run Mandrake 10.0
    >(Community) and did not have this problem at all.

    Did you change anything else besides the software?

            Old guy

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