Re: troubles with KDE(?)

From: amp (arattan_at_math.uwaterloo.ca)
Date: 03/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:31:16 -0500

i am also running redhat 9.

it may be that your system did not crash, but X crashed. i have had X
crash before where the keyboard, mouse and screen were locked. I know
that it was X (and not the whole system) because i have my computer on a
network and i was able to login from elsewhere and kill X.

crashes can be brought about by many things, it is hard to tell. A user
app should not crash the whole system (i suspect your X crashed).
However, i am also no linux expert.

one thing that i can recommend is updating to a new kernel. I found that
has helped me with crash situations before. On redhat 8 i had a system
that crashed all the time and i updated the kernel and that fixed
everything (well, all the crashing :))

if you don't know how to install a new kernel, let me know.

amp

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:57:00 -0500, Sonny Ha wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got my Linux box crashed two times today. The first time, I was out
> of my room and didn't know what happened, but when I came back, there was
> no more response from the machine, except the mouse still moving. The
> second time, it happened right in front of me. What happened was I decided
> to kill a Mozilla Firefox window because it was stalling while loading a
> webpage (due to the fact that my broadband Internet connection was
> disconnected). Right after that, I tried to re-open Mozilla Firefox and
> things just got frozen like what I used to get in Windows. After waiting
> for a while with no luck, I had to press reset...
>
> How could this happen? I'm still not a Linux expert and can't figure out
> what's wrong. BTW, I'm running KDE 3.1-10 in Red Hat Linux 9.0 with the
> kernel version 2.4.20-8, and the version of Mozilla Firefox is 0.8. Please
> help!
>
> Sonny

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