[ale] suddenly finding computer 'seized-up'....

[Courtney Thomas]

Steven,

Thank you for your suggestions.

I guess telnet would be the easiest to try, huh ?

I've no experience with the other two and both machines are on my local 
LAN so ssh is not required I assume, but any further elaboration on how 
to use these 3 tools would be gratefully accepted.

Cordially,
Courtney



Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> If the box is still running, have you tried accessing it via ssh/rsh/telnet
> from anoter system prior to just pulling the plug for a hard reset?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
>>From: Courtney Thomas <cc.thomas at earthlink.net>
>>Sent: Mar 20, 2006 2:26 PM
>>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>>Subject: [ale] suddenly finding computer 'seized-up'....
>>
>>Recently several times I've left my computer downloading for extended 
>>periods to return to a frozen machine, i.e. not working are the mouse, 
>>keyboard or monitor but the box itself is still running; and, of course, 
>>the only way to resume is...a hard reset. Fortunately, this has not 
>>resulted in disaster. I've fsck'd all the partitions before rebooting 
>>and, seemingly nothing critical has been lost.
>>
>>I should mention that often but not always, when I try to print from 
>>Mozilla 1.7.7 [not Firebird, but rather Mozilla/5 Gecko 20051115] I get 
>>a core dump. This usually occurs after Mozilla has been running awhile, 
>>not when first started. I wonder if all this is from a Mozilla memory 
>>leak and if so, how can I tell ? Or should I just upgrade Mozilla [HOW 
>>?] to remove this suspect, or is the recent version equally likely to 
>>repeat.
>>
>>I also ran memtest86 and discovered nothing.
>>
>>I'm intermittently getting a stream of sio [sio1, irq=3] overflows,  the 
>>mouse is on com1 and modem on com2.
>>
>>Nevertheless, clearly, I need to resolve this ASAP.
>>
>>A suitable algorithm [or a pointer to same] pertaining to hard&soft-ware 
>>resolution...would be appreciated.
>>
>>Gratefully,
>>
>>Courtney
> 
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